The next stage of 3 WW is coming at the end of this year.
No matter what are Iran-USA diplomatic talks, Iran will be nuked, by hands of Israel. Bushehr nuclear power plant will be dirty bombed, it will explode, with 72 tons of active material loaded in reactors and 200 tons spend fuel stored on site. Americans will use flesh rotting chemical weapons, gas bombs on civilians - all not reported and later under-reported by the Western mass media. Death in tens millions, hell in hell. Mass migration in ten/hundred millions from the Middle East, out of total 500 mln population.
Israel enters into Great Israel stage, the map Natanyahu shown at UN plenary session on 22 September 2023. And beyond those borders. With false Messiah pointed by them, just to get all those mad evangelical Christians in the USA and everywhere else, who are all Zionists, on their side.
If Trump doesn’t follow, he will be poisoned. His son Barron becoming interim president.
Pivotal in this war will be a new player, but not a superpower, Turkiye. It will leave NATO and associate with Russia and Pakistan for nuclear umbrella.
Russia and/or Pakistan will nuke Israel, to prevent them from using remaining bombs on Turkiye and elsewhere.
There would be immediately hot front on NATO East border. Six countries will be at active war. Large American armaments will be coming, they will send all they have, and they still have a lot - bar nukes. Zaporozhe nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, will be once again bombed, but this time at critical danger level. All borders in Europe shut and with full military mobilisation, to prevent mass migration from Ukrainian and Middle East humanitarian disaster and stop deserters, conscripts from war countries.
It will be a very fast paced war, with many war theatres around the glob, will end
Chine will try to stay away as far as possible. To prevent nuclear war they will use biological weapon, highly deadly pandemic, with not known medicines to cure. All active fronts and any military activity will cease. Putin single-handedly stopped Covid, which was just socio-engineering, by war on Banderites, Xi will stop nuclear war with ensuring nuclear winter, by real mass death. That will save humanity for 1-2 generations, when the 4 WW will annihilate 99% of us.
The second Spectre? Oh the irony of the dwindling iron ore capacity likely to be put into idle mode, and output in this sector possibly reduced by 35%.%...
It will be the mother of all fortifications. Take the efforts to capture Avdeevka and Bakhmut and multiply them by 10 and that's what Russia must overcome.
When in desperate state Ukraine will increasingly turn to terrorist acts. And that before general elections in Russia, which is on 18-20th September.
This aerial station in Kiev was struck 2 months ago, because there was some military bunker or air defence system. Russian would not fire ballistic missiles into civilian earth constructions, but at hardened military targets.
So effect on station itself would be minimal and temporary.
And those supposed Korean ballictics won't be used on infrastructure, but on proper military targets. For Koreans it's live shooting range, so conditions and targets would be similar to battlefield.
Yup. They took the cat shit straight outta my litter box freshly dropped outta my cat's ass and didn't bother rolling it up, just smoked that shit cigar outta their lips on fire
And? What is going to happen to them other than the occasional bad trip?
Yesterday the Polish president officially said that the goal of Poland is to kill as many Russians as possible.
That is effectively a declaration of war -- the president, speaking in official capacity, is declaring that Poland will be killing Russians.
If Russia was run by proper leadership what would have followed is an official demand for clarification/confirmation on those remarks, i.e. is Poland formaly declaring war on Russia, or is the president going to withdraw those remarks as well as all material support for Ukraine?
If not the latter, then military-technical measures are to be taken within the next 24 hours to permanently neutralize the threat coming from Poland, forever.
But Russia is not run by proper leadership, it is owned by comprador elites begging to be readmitted into the club (never mind the club does not want them) and there is no level of treason they will not stoop to in the name of preserving their current wealth and power, so Poland is indeed free to kill as many Russians as it wants to. And so is Latvia, and countless others who shouldn't even be able to contemplate that out of fear of the immediate consequences of trying it.
Because for the Russian leadership those Russian lives matter not at all.
I think the globalist goons are the ones who are desperate to get Putin & Team on their sides, if not why they kept on claiming he is "Jew" and he is one of Schwab'sWEF trained "young leaders"?!?!? The Guy is Soviet Era KGB Agent for crying out loud. He is in his 70s.
They do this on one hand, while on the other they attempt to assassinate or at least call for his assassination. They are the f ups in the room. Putin is the Good Guy. These criminals plans are to split Russia into several failed crap holes as they have everywhere else they were allowed. Russia as a country should Guard Herself with All Her Might.
The Russian Leadership is not anything bad. They are Xtremely wise and patient. To their Credit.
I don't understand why the polish would do such thing. Didn't the Ukrapian Nazis murder over 100K of them in WW2, all of which were civilian villagers. They should line up against Ukrapia if anything. Thanks for the headlines.
No, it wasn't Bolsheviks, it was the predatory neo-bourgeoise faction of the nomenklatura together with the analogous layer in the KGB. None of those people were bolsheviks in any meaningful sense of the word, this wasn't the 1910s/20s/30s anymore, it was two, three generations forward in time.
Now guess which faction in the KGB Putin likely belonged to given how he likes to spit on the USSR every time he gets a chance.
It was Oligarchs and bankers who stripped Russia of it's wealth they are pro-Zionists and ruthless mobsters. Most Russians spit on the USSR as the ideology of communism failed them and the Rothchild factions robbed them.
Are you new here? Trying to reason with GM is like trying to reason with a Buzz Lightyear doll. No matter how many times you pull the string, you get the same bullshit every time.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 you're hilarious. No I don't know GM and I am not new to Substack, I sporadically post and read. But one thing is for sure: I already like you😛. Thank you so much for the laugh. I needed it😂.
Also of note amidst all the joyful celebration of Russia's victory, Turkey is beginning to restrict Russian egress from the Black Sea through the Dardanelles.
The way I understand the story is Türkiye is restricting shipping going to Russia and Ukraine because of attacks on those ships. I didn’t see that they’re keeping ships in the Black Sea.
Just a detail that may not matter in the long run. Kinda like Hormuz.
That’s true, both that they’re restricting shipping going to Russia (rather than from) and that it won’t matter in the long run. They plan to prevent Russia from crossing the Dardanelles, rendering Russian ports useless for commerce. I guess in theory, as currently stated, laden ships could leave from Russia, make deliveries, and end up in St. Petersburg, but the net effect is the same, and I wouldn’t bet on Turkey maintaining the literal policy if Russia doesn’t react forcefully.
Well, let’s think about how this fits with the new defense pact between turkyie, Saudi and Pakistan.
Alastair Crooke suggested China is behind it. Im thinking the plan is to restrict Ukraine exports and move Russia’s exports via alternate routes. The INSTC for example.
There was a recent report on the highway from Tehran to Turkestan and from there to China.
China’s getting soybeans from Brazil now shutting down American farmers. (For example).
It’s a “death by 1000cuts” sort of thing.
I just point out options. Which path is followed will swing back and forth for years yet. I mean it took nearly 2 decades to get the Ukraine war going. Putin takes about at the 2007 Munich Security Conference.
I’m more interested in getting the American banksters under control. Something that directly impacts me.
Not buying it. Russia has already “restricted” Ukrainian exports to the point of zero, so this has no effect on them, and wtf right would China have to cause Russia to move exports via alternate routes? I think Alex Christoforou’s explanation is much more persuasive: this was at US command as a way to try to neutralize Russia’s accomplishment and perhaps force Russian submission to the also proposed cease fire.
Hadn't heard they were stopping, but yes, it's an obvious salami slice that YET AGAIN has gone unchallenged. I've just about concluded that Russian leadership is fully complicit in western schemes. It's the old "we've established what you are, now we're just haggling over price" thing all over again.
I guess we'll have to see, won't we? Because your predictions clearly foretell an eventual Ukrainian/western victory and a Russian defeat. I don't believe that will happen and am tired of arguing against the same position every time - Russia is dumb and Ukraine is outfoxing it six ways from Sunday - but if it does, let me be the first to congratulate you on your perspicacity.
If not, assume a proportionate exhibition of mockery.
That's a very spirited and inspired defense, and quite passionate. However, I was actually not talking to you. I was addressing GM's argument. And your taking me to task like a schoolmarm is kind of a turn-on, although your opinion of me never entered the equation on my side. I never once thought you were forecasting a Ukrainian victory; I take it as read by your other commentary that you understand that perfectly well. But I am afraid you are fluffing up like a cat over nothing. Your opinion is your own; I don't agree, but like I said - when I was talking to GM, whose own argument is not the least bit unpredictable - we'll have to see.
Unless you were flying to his defense, which implies a whole 'nother dynamic.
And also a fundamental mistake to see this as a war between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is just a firing platform now for the West to launch drones and missiles into Russia. And that is the only proper way to see it -- as a war between Russia and the West. One in which the West strikes Russia but Russia does not strike the West. Well, that is a one-way street to defeat.
The exchange ratio is something to zero in favor of the West, with that something growing constantly and reaching ever deeper into Russia.
Today they hit Tobolsk, FFS.
You can't have that situation persist indefinitely because when you integrate something over infinity you eventually overwhelm any system.
There are three options here:
1. Russia does something drastic that forces the exchange ratio to be zero to zero again
2. Russia does something drastic that turns the exchange ratio between it and the West from the current something to zero in the West's favor to something to something bigger in Russia's favor
3. Russia is slowly but surely destroyed by staying on the current course.
It took nearly 15 years to collapse Syria, but collapse it did eventually. These things take time.
Western nations are a shambling, zombified husk crumbling in real time, before our eyes. Losing a finger here, part of its scalp there, some teeth over here. Hey guy, maybe the answer isn't "NUKE THEM ALL YESTERDAY." Maybe the west is the desperate player here.
Threat coming from Poland? Ahahahahahah! Thousands of mercenaries from Poland have already died there. They can send more to the meat grinder if they want. The Polish leadership can say squat, they are incompetent imbeciles only good at hiding behind the banderite backs.
The Polish leadership are such buffoons that their daddy US forced them to fund and arm the bandera fangirls. Need I remind you what Bandera and his cronies did to hundreds of thousands of poles during WWII?
Who the heck can take the Polish leadership serious if they are such morons.
The drones that today killed a dozen people in Nizhnekamsk and hit the petrochemical plant in Tobolsk (!!!) did not come from Ukraine, they just passede through it. Before that they were in Poland.
Well ofcourse you would want Russian leadership to attack Poland/Nato and for what? Some loudmouth moron comments to his russophobic audience??? Why would Russia even listen to what this irrelevant clown has to say? Let Poland launch strikes directly at Russia and see what comes back but we both know that would never happen becouse Poland would turn in to a parking lot in 20min. Russia has a winning formula in Ukraine and no matter how much yapping comes out of likes of you RF will not attack Europe unless its attacked first.
On March 30th 2022 Russia controlled twice as much of Ukraine as it does today.
And all Ukraine had to strike back was a limited stockpile of old Soveit Tochka-U TBMs with 180 km range.
Today heavy and light cruise missiles are hitting Tobolsk and Omsk.
How is that winning?
>Well ofcourse you would want Russian leadership to attack Poland/Nato and for what?
You really are that stupid, aren't you? You think what we are talking about here is some symbolic strike that will just add another proxy to fire from?
No, if you are going to strike, you strike strategically, for total annihilation, then move in with ground forces, kill off every single survivor you find, and there is no more Poland (or any other countr) ever again, it becomes Russian territory permanently.
That way you eliminate the threat, physically and permanently. And you enforce deterrence for anyone else who feels brave.
The current approach is how you get defeated terminally.
Great idea, kidnap my dad Vlad, which will fail stunningly, except that it will bring a swift end to the Chihuahua called Latvia and maybe estonedia and Lithuanium too, sigh...were the state official officer from chi ua ua found to be responsible for such intelligent efforts
“Reports that the Bortnitskaya aeration station has been damaged are untrue,” said ukrainian General Staff spokesperson Likhovoy, refuting the statements made by the head of the “Eidos” analytical center.
So they officially declared Putin a war criminal before he had committed any war crimes, on bogus charges, but now he is working overtime to justify the label.
Hahahaha...kidnapping Putin is a great idea! Then Putin would temporarily be replaced by Medvedev or another Russian neocon...Then Kiev gets blown off the map....Genius!
Well, give some credit where it's due here. At least this shows a fair amount more imagination than Kallas' and von der Lying's sanction package number 99...
Saw some report yesterday that UK intelligence encouraged Ukies to strike Wildberries, because Russia was almost out of missiles and could not properly retaliate and drones could be shot down. lmao
There was a very detailed PR campaign about how many missiles of each type Russia had left, not so long ago.
According to Jihadi Julian increased use of drones, glide bombs and missiles results in higher casualty rates for Rus army.
Looks like Russia created SOF units from Ukrainians that decided to fight against Ze’s regime. I wonder if they will be named 'Sudoplatov'. Hunting games for the regime specimens are about to start, I think.
Somebody going to get Konovaletsed hard.
Mikey better go to the street soon.
'"Tell us, Europeans, what can we do to help you kill more Russians?"
This isn't a scene from a Hollywood movie. This is German journalist Michael Martens of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asking Zelensky how Europeans can help him kill more Russians, at a joint press conference. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić couldn't even hide his astonishment.'
>Saw some report yesterday that UK intelligence encouraged Ukies to strike Wildberries, because Russia was almost out of missiles and could not properly retaliate and drones could be shot down. lmao
They are hitting Wildberries because it is a Russian-owned business that they want to displace once the Putin regime has been toppled.
It is also why they are not hitting Ozon (the characteristics of the owners are different)
The long-term idea here is for what remains of Ozon one day to be bought up by Amazon and for Amazon to have the same monopoly in Russia as it has in the US and several countries in Europe. But on a grander scale because e-commerce is so highly developed in Russia.
Effectively Russia has been reduced to a Latin American tinpot dictatorship that the US can come in and bomb whichever way it pleases in order to make room for US business interests.
There are the same willing comprador collaborators too -- the Kiril Dmitriev 14-trillion plan was effectively a plan for the Delsy-fication of the Russian government.
But Amazon is also a legitimate military target. According to Ukraine's published rationale, you can buy military-type body armour (it's mostly AirSoft, but looks like military kit although it would not pass Milspecs) and drone parts from Wildberries, therefore it is contributing materially to the war effort, therefore it their premises are military targets. Taking it a step further, Ukraine argues Wildberries contributes a lot of money, through taxes, to the government which uses its revenue to buy weapons. Therefore taxpayers are military targets. That's to get around the Laws of Armed Conflict, which specifically and clearly prohibit military attacks on civilian businesses, but includes an exemption for civilian business shown to be used for military purposes and which materially contributes to the military effort.
But all of that rationale applies equally to Amazon. And to you - you're a taxpayer. So according to the law as Ukraine is trying to get it interpreted, there is really no such thing as a civilian, no protections accrue thereto and the term is meaningless.
At the risk of Elena flying to scold me once again that it is I who am missing the point...you are missing the point. Attacking commercial enterprises using the flimsy excuse that they sell merchandise which 'looks military' is against the law. When somebody does something that all observers know is Against The Law, and those who daily remind us that they are steeped like teabags in The Rule Of Law make not a word of demurral, then it is understood that what was forbidden is no longer Against The Law. That's called 'precedent'.
I'm not making the argument that if Russia had any stones, it would blow up a warehouse in Germany or Pasacagoula or somewhere in the west, because what would likely happen would be a general war of some magnitude: although the west is probably in the worst position in its history to start a general war of any scale, it couldn't just back down. And Russia is not crazy.
The point I am trying to make is that Russia is not the USA's only enemy, and it has some who ARE crazy. And it has just kicked the legs out from under its international-law argument that attacking civilian commercial enterprises is NOT okay. Blowing up an Amazon warehouse in the USA is most certainly still a crime - just not an international crime warranting hauling the guilty, if they can be caught, to the Hague. And I suppose I could understand it if they sacrificed the canard that America worships the law for what they believed was a constructive purpose, like being seen to scorn international law would bring Ukrainian victory or at least 'force Putin to the negotiating table'. But it will do neither of those things. You'll see.
Note that it it was up to me I would not be setting Amazon warehouses on fire.
I would be nuking Amazon data centers (they are too large for conventional strikes to do much damage, but you can sneak in a few kilotons and claim it was conventional, the way the US has done on so many occasions).
But most importantly, I would be sending an Yasen sub to torpedo Bezos's yacht, making sure he is on it and then double and triple tapping to prevent any escape of any survivors.
That is how you serve justice and enforce deterrence with minimal collateral damage.
Now, I know you do not really mean that. Surely to God you realize that torpedoing Bezos's yacht would (a) probably earn a resounding cheer among even Americans who think he is the embodiment of a wealthy plague, and (b) do absolutely nothing to balance the scales; if Bezos disappeared (not good odds as he probably uses his yacht one or two weekends a year) another like him would take his place.
And you would never risk a Yasen sub on such a mission; Russia still has a fairly large fleet of diesel boats which would be ideally suited to such a task and for whom the torpedo is the primary weapon.
You know, by the time we get done arguing, our viewpoints have grown much closer. I agree America is a bully that makes maximum use of God-given advantages in geography and natural resources to plunder allies and enemies alike, and that the injustice of it is breathtaking. But it is no part of Russia's strategic map for defeating Ukraine to take on the USA head-to-head, much as Zelinsky would shout with joy. Instead, Russia's careful navigation of the battlefield, and its habit of waiting a bit after a Ukrainian escalation so it is clear afterward that Ukraine struck first, are building an airtight case against future prosecution by some cobbled-together 'international tribunal' for war crimes. Russia is entitled to respond to an attack with proportionate force against the same or similar assets, with perhaps a little extra allowance for deterrence.
Vucic is a disgrace and Serbia has betrayed Russia too, together with Kazahstan and Azerbadjan.. Syria is gone with its ports. When Lukashenko steps down, Belarus could stumble too. The noose around Russia keeps tightening. BRICs only existed in Escobar's imagination. They were killed in the cradle.
Not that I am a fan of Vucic, and nobody I know is, but Serbia is landlocked. Whatever they need from outside has to cross EU and NATO territory. It is no joke balancing their position.
GM and Denis are blacking out their faces with burnt corks as we speak.
A cordon has appeared around the Kremlin, but these two characters are desperate, and having kidnapped Saddam Hussein and Nicolas Maduro in the recent past, things are looking grim for Russia.
Maduro tried to buy himself off by offering the US a deal all throughout 2025 instead of preparing for war by acquiring ballistic and anti-ship missiles and drones.
The US wanted total submission though.
So first they tested him by starting to kill off his fishermen, a test that he failed by never firing back at the ships sieging Venezuela, then they bought off the people around him and kidnapped him.
Putin has been trying to buy himself off the same way. He offered the US 14 trillion, but the US wants the whole 140 trillion in real wealth, not some pitiful 14.
So the US has been testing Putin's resolve by killing off his civilians, a test that he has been failing miserably by never firing a single shot back. Where does that end?
Where does the US$140 TN in "real wealth" figure come from? Is this private wealth (i.e., aggregate household net worth) or includes public/govt owned balance sheet as well?
Thanks Tim. When big numbers like this are thrown out, one would like something more than a "Probably an estimate based on..." // Now, clearly, references to "Western" (US/UK/NATO) sources are not what is called for, but, hey, at least something else, eh?
You selectively omitted Operation Gideon, the hilarious American semi-official 2020 attempt to kidnap Maduro, described by the BBC as "a staggering tale of hubris, incompetence and treachery".
I've noticed that about America-is-omnipotent devotees; the west gets unlimited do-overs until it is successful, whereupon everything went exactly according to the irresistible plan. And I suppose that's fair enough as far as it goes, but in this instance America is trying unlimited do-overs using a proxy who is seriously struggling, in circumstances where it is fighting one war to the purported best of its ability while trying to keep a hand in a second, after having drawn down its this-shit-is-getting-serious emergency stockpiles of missiles to about a third and its Strategic Oil Reserves to the Minimum Operating Level, with an exploding national debt. Looked at that way, it's not really an impregnable position, is it? Especially against an enemy the west swore two years ago was taking apart dishwashers to get chips to build missiles.
It's fascinating that the US, which put about that story, is now unable to build its own hardware because of the Chinese refusal to sell them the seven different rare earth minerals these devices require - and so the farcical situation whereby F35s are now being delivered to the military with lumps of concrete in their noses instead of AESA radars.
The humilation of the Indispensible Nation is complete.
America isn't omnipotent. Yet. But it is close to achieving escape velocity beyond which moment it will be.
The question is does the rest of the world have what it takes to fight back and stop it?
The tragedy here is that America's overwhelming advantage isn't it's military might but the fact that America itself is founded on and thrives upon the worst human traits -- gluttony, avarice, sloth, vanity, etc. So it has the real superpower of easily subverting other countries' elites in a way that cannot be reciprocated.
You need saints like Dzerzhinsky, Stalin, Mao, the ayatollahs, etc. to effectively resist. And that is not sustainable because such exceptional individuals are rare while tratiors are abundant, and subversion is mostly a one-way street; it has not been reversed on very many occasions.
It hasn't fully been reversed even in Russia to this day, for example.
>the west gets unlimited do-overs until it is successful
Yes, indeed, and that is a big part of the problem.
The West does indeed get unlimited do-overs.
Because its enemies are not out to defeat it but at best just to weather the current storm, or worse, make some shitty deal that (they think) buts them some more time at the cost of making their strategic position much more unfavorable. Russia is being bombed in Siberia right now precisely because of a long series of such deals.
The only way for the West to not get unlimited do-overs is for the West to be terminally defeated. But nobody has had that as a goal for a very long time.
As someone who's lived there for 30+ years, the only thing the US is close to is systemic collapse. It's already been terminally defeated, some would argue a long time ago.
"I've noticed that about America-is-omnipotent devotees; the west gets unlimited do-overs until it is successful, whereupon everything went exactly according to the irresistible plan. "
It works. To speak of Maduro, it took several attempts, but the United States got what it wanted.
Is it working? Is it really? Are Americans farting through silk and getting fat and lazy on exports of Venezuelan oil? Did Trump establish that as a primary goal of the seizure of Venezuela? Sure did. Instead, oil executives told Trump the country was 'uninvestable' in its current state, and if America is benefiting from the export of Venezuelan oil, Americans sure don't know.
If you mean money from oil sales is flowing directly into Trump's pockets with zero accountability, I don't know how that could be said to be 'working'; it merely exchanges one leader who the USA claimed was corrupt for another one everybody can see is corrupt.
Not contributing to paying down the national debt, either, which expands by an average $10 Billion every day, and is already well over 100% of GDP. Meanwhile the national poverty rate is over 11%.
The national debt is an illusion, a deception, a chimerical construct that holds everyone in thrall.
If you borrow numbers on a balance sheet, you are not borrowing anything; so you can repay whatever was borrowed with other numbers on another balance sheet.
The entire scam is designed to let jews live off the sweat of your brow.
As Hitler - the evil man, the worst ever - pointed out, and replaced the system with one which valued the Reichsmark against work done, and goods produced.
his mistake was to use a known location, one that Delta had trained for months on a copy of. Had he used only new locations with a proper dug in and guarded perimeter around them it would not have been possible to prepare to the degree required. He needed to shake up his whole security and get out of caracas. But did not want to be seen as hiding
The crimes began with Brzhinsky's book the grand chess board; when it was advocated that Ukraine should be used as a geopolitical lever to destabilize Russia in the interests of US hegemony; the so called end of history.
They continued with Nuland's feeding $5 billion US into the nation, to promote Banderism, which of course has always been an issue in Ukraine.
And of course the endless attacks on sleeping students, people on beaches or in markets, etc etc.
Note how Russia always attacks its targets at night, so as to minimize civilian deaths.
It's not really to answer them, but simply to lay out the opposing case for everybody else - who otherwise will subconsciously imbibe what the liar says.
So why did Brzezinski live to see the results of his plan and then died in peace several years after the Maidan?
Why did Nuland live to be back in power to oversee the transition to large-scale war too and still hasn't been touched even after that?
In fact she was in the Kremlin a few weeks prior to February 2022 threatening Putin directly. Why was she allowed to leave and not sent to Kolyma to dig for gold at -50C until her ovesity issue is terminally resolved?
Why are Witkoff and Kushner going to do the same next week and they will not be sent to Kolyma either?
Effectively, these people are not the primary drivers of conflict; they simply express what the deep state agenda is.
So if you help them to lose weight, or send a missile to their house, somebody else will step up to replace them.
The best explanation for this agenda I can find is that jews never forgive; and Russia backed Egypt and the Arabs during the seven-day war - you will know that they still hate what they call "Amalek" 3500 years after being attacked by them after they exited from Egypt in the Exodus.
Plus of course, Putin stopped them from raping the nation after the collapse of the USSR, and the era of the oligarchs.
The annual capital outflow measured in hundreds of billions continues to this day. It reduced a little bit under Putin, then reduced a bit more due to sanctions, but it never stopped.
Now I've seen everything. An attribution of essential rectitude to Brzezinski just because he didn't die young. As if, if he was wrong, God would have put His finger on his forehead and terminated his noodle, as a sign to the rest of us. If Russia's cause was truly just, as it claims, its opponents would die from opposing it. I'm speechless. Well done.
Your argument - and I can't swear to have pinned it down, because it keeps shifting - seems to be that Russia will never win unless it becomes just like its opponent.
No, Russia doesn't have to become like its opponent. But that is what Putin has been doing.
It's opponent has been killing civilians in huge numbers for centuries. Russia doesn't have to be doing that.
But what has Putin spent the last five years doing? Genociding ethnically Russian working class males on both sides of the front line.
When it all could have been ended by taking out the (mostly non-Russian) leadership in Ukraine.
But what we have instead is that the (mostly non-Russian) Ukro-Nazi leadership enjoys ironclad guarantees that it won't be touched. Meanwhile the Russian civilians have no guarantees for their safety.
(...) The crimes began with Brzhinsky's book the grand chess board; when it was advocated that Ukraine should be used as a geopolitical lever to destabilize Russia in the interests of US hegemony; the so called end of history. (...)
Unfortunately, your post is missing the crucial element in the explanation of the Heartland Theory—an element without which it is practically impossible to understand the theory as a whole (which, in my opinion, remains relevant to this day).
The starting point of the analysis is the influential Heartland Theory, which the British geographer developed and presented for the first time in 1904.
According to Mackinder, Europe, Asia, and Africa are viewed as the great "World-Island." This term stems from the fact that the World-Island encompasses the majority of the population and the bulk of natural resources. The Heartland comprises Eastern Europe and North Asia and is virtually identical to the territory of the Soviet Union.
According to this theory, Eurasia—with its vast resources of population, energy, and raw materials—is the world's true center of power (the "Heartland"). Glenn Diesen writes in his book that maritime powers outside Eurasia, such as Great Britain and later the USA (the "Rimland"), must therefore constantly strive to prevent the geoeconomic integration of Eurasia—employing a "divide-and-rule" approach—in order to maintain their geostrategic supremacy.
The Heartland is encircled by an "inner crescent"—a formation of coastal lands arranged in a crescent shape (the "inner or marginal crescent"). Countries located here include Germany, Turkey, India, and China, among others.
The remainder belongs to the "outer crescent"—lands situated away from the coasts (the "lands of the outer or insular crescent"). These include the Americas and Australia. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland-Theorie
In 1919, Mackinder expanded his theory, stating that the Heartland is securely accessible only from the west. (1)
This observation is crucial for understanding today's events.
In his book *Democratic Ideals and Reality* (often referred to as the Heartland Theory), Mackinder describes how he arrived at this conclusion.
The difficulty in conquering the World-Island lies in the fact that mountain ranges make access from the south nearly impossible, while the seas are too distant. From the east, thousands of kilometers of wilderness obstruct the path before one can reach Russia's major population and industrial centers.
In contrast, there is a broad geographical gateway to the "Russian fortress" in the west. This gateway potentially offers the Heartland access to strategically important maritime trade routes. At the same time, however, it serves as an entry point for military invasions from Europe into the heart of the landmass. (2)
Mackinder designated Eastern Europe as the "strategic Heartland," giving rise to his famous maxim:
"Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland
Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island
Who rules the World-Island commands the World"
Mackinder, *Democratic Ideals and Reality*, p. 106 (3)
Ultimately, in 1943, the British scholar expanded his theory in a third essay. He warned that military air superiority could not override the principles of the Heartland Theory—a crucial detail that remains relevant to this day. (4)
The story of how the Heartland Theory was further developed and instrumentalized in the USA—and how it eventually served as the foundation for the US policy of containment, formulated by George F. Kennan just a few years later—is fascinating and described in detail here. (5)
Brzezinski’s analysis was ultimately just the culmination of the ideas held by those deranged Anglo-Saxon neocons, but it was by no means the original concept!
In 1940, Spykman—a professor of international relations at Yale—took up Mackinder’s thesis regarding the decisive importance of the Eurasian Heartland but established new premises to formulate a US security strategy. Spykman was determined to prevent the rulers of the Heartland from expanding into adjacent territories. He reinterpreted what Mackinder had termed the "Inner Crescent" as the "Rimlands" encircling the Heartland. (6)
Professor John Spykman posited that the Heartland itself was not the decisive factor; instead, he argued that the Inner Crescent—which he dubbed the "Rimland"—held primary strategic importance.
Mackinder’s theories differ on one essential point: which specific region must be controlled in order to dominate the world.
Mackinder holds the view that it is the Heartland itself that must be controlled. To achieve this, control over Eastern Europe is essential. Spykman, on the other hand, argues that controlling the Rimland is sufficient to contain and dominate the Heartland (and that the Heartland itself can be left alone).
In the standard interpretation of his theory, Iran is explicitly included in the West Asian section of the Rimland; Spykman—or the secondary literature—lists the "Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan" or "Asia Minor, Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, China, Korea..."
in this context. The classification for the Middle East would thus be, for example:
– Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Jordan
– Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan
– Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states
In Spykman’s framework, Iran occupies a central Rimland position between the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, and India!
A brief digression: After the end of World War II, Churchill urged the USA to attack the Soviet Union using atomic bombs and deploying all Western armies, including German troops. The USA refused. The conduct of both states and their leaders reflects their respective geopolitical doctrines. (…) The USA later crossed all moral boundaries when it came to its number one objective: the Rimland. (7)
It is therefore hardly surprising that the military bases and alliances established by the USA immediately after World War II focused on the Rimland. US global military bases: https://www.basenation.us/maps.htm
Another example is the military alliances the USA formed immediately after World War II.
1949 NATO: containment of the Heartland from the west.
1951 Japan Security Treaty: containment of the Heartland from the east.
1954 Southeast Asia Treaty Organization: containment of the Heartland from the southeast.
1955 saw the Middle East Treaty Organization: the containment of the Heartland from the southwest. (8)
Now, NATO’s eastward expansion can also be viewed in the proper light—an expansion ruthlessly pushed forward in defiance of all promises and assurances made to Russia, and one that remains unfinished in the sick fantasies of the Epstein elite. Ukraine—and indirectly Iran, which is a (perhaps even *the*) decisive element in controlling the Rimland—lies at the heart of this strategy.
One would have to be completely blinded by ideology not to see that Russia’s security concerns are entirely real. NATO has comprehensively occupied the gateway to Russia’s western border, with Ukraine serving as the final bastion. An unbroken front—stretching in a direct line between the Baltic and Black Seas—has been established to plunder Russia’s natural resources, fragment the country, and bring it under control just as happened during the Yeltsin years. It was an Eldorado for Western financial elites and their political and military vassals.
Proof that this statement is no mere conspiracy theory, but rests on a real foundation, is found in a campaign supported by the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Washington, D.C.: the decolonization of Russia as a moral and strategic imperative. (9)
The Anglo-Saxon maritime powers—whose elites are cannibalistic pedophiles, a fact one should never forget—have tried to prevent German-Russian cooperation at all costs to this very day. Divide and conquer—the strategy of every empire in world history.
The blowing up of the Nord Stream pipeline by the Anglo-Saxons and their Norwegian vassal—as Seymour Hersh has conclusively demonstrated—must also be understood in this context. (10)
When German warmongers and their media—dripping with venom—once again rail against Russia and Putin, we now know who is responsible and, above all, who benefits from it.
Well sourced and comprehensive comments like that are commendable. It is necessary to post all of those facts occasionally here. Few will read it all because it is very long and detailed for a blog comment.
Sounds like McKinder Junior had a world map above his cot, and began to dream.
In actual fact, we no longer have to invade nations to control them; the control is better achieved via the banking system, which is run not by "Anglo Saxon cannibals and paedophiles", but by jews.
No mention of this latter group, who are behind all the problems we face.
Remove the jews, and you immediately remove Trump's devastatingly destructive influence on world affairs.
Here we have a recent example of their intimate involvement in the demonization process; and what normal people think about it.
It's interesting that you use this term "war crimes."
One of the YT channels I watch has a woman - the widow of a UAF pilot - wandering around a part of Kiev and talking about exactly the same thing - she says Russian missiles have targeted the area several times; but the interesting thing is that she shows multiple high-rise buildings with zero damage to them.
I believe this sort of thing is called "cognitive dissonance," ie something is demonstrably untrue, but you keep saying it, because not to do so separates you from the narrative you have swallowed.
This YT channel isn't the one I was talking about, but it's one of my favourites - she expresses exactly the same ideas though; somebody who is really likeable, but who really has no idea why things are as they are.
Yeah, deep inside she knows why she is not panicking. She knows her life is not in danger and she can sleep relatively peacefuly, except for the sounds.
Such a contrast with images from Donbass targeted by the Kiev junta since 2014.
Another difference in behaviour of Ukrowestnazi and Russian army: Russians don't target the firefighters and the rescuers when they arrive at the scene.
There is someone the Donbas residents call "The Madonna of Donbass."
This is - or was - a young woman who was out walking with her young child in 2014 when a Ukrainian missile slammed into her, blowing off her leg, and murdering the child, whom she clutched in her arms as she lay dying.
I remember that video. Hideous. But speak to the propagandized and it never happened. Just like the 14,500 dead never happened. Including more than 500 children.
He used a qualifier 'however'. It deserved a far more robust response. That is all I am saying, Victor. Maybe I am just getting tired of the so called balanced 'giving Ukrainian prop the benefit of any doubt' commentary.
The gnome of Kiev will enjoy smoking flying reindeer dung.
He likely thinks it gives him that Ronaldo aura around hot girls.
It is known that Ronaldo (the younger) likes hanging around with yacht boys.
Not that it matters overmuch, but the porker in the photo's arm features a blue/yellow flag patch, not the red-white-red of Latvia.
First
The second
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukraines-air-defense-crisis-turns/comment/311028358
The next stage of 3 WW is coming at the end of this year.
No matter what are Iran-USA diplomatic talks, Iran will be nuked, by hands of Israel. Bushehr nuclear power plant will be dirty bombed, it will explode, with 72 tons of active material loaded in reactors and 200 tons spend fuel stored on site. Americans will use flesh rotting chemical weapons, gas bombs on civilians - all not reported and later under-reported by the Western mass media. Death in tens millions, hell in hell. Mass migration in ten/hundred millions from the Middle East, out of total 500 mln population.
Israel enters into Great Israel stage, the map Natanyahu shown at UN plenary session on 22 September 2023. And beyond those borders. With false Messiah pointed by them, just to get all those mad evangelical Christians in the USA and everywhere else, who are all Zionists, on their side.
If Trump doesn’t follow, he will be poisoned. His son Barron becoming interim president.
Pivotal in this war will be a new player, but not a superpower, Turkiye. It will leave NATO and associate with Russia and Pakistan for nuclear umbrella.
Russia and/or Pakistan will nuke Israel, to prevent them from using remaining bombs on Turkiye and elsewhere.
There would be immediately hot front on NATO East border. Six countries will be at active war. Large American armaments will be coming, they will send all they have, and they still have a lot - bar nukes. Zaporozhe nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, will be once again bombed, but this time at critical danger level. All borders in Europe shut and with full military mobilisation, to prevent mass migration from Ukrainian and Middle East humanitarian disaster and stop deserters, conscripts from war countries.
It will be a very fast paced war, with many war theatres around the glob, will end
Chine will try to stay away as far as possible. To prevent nuclear war they will use biological weapon, highly deadly pandemic, with not known medicines to cure. All active fronts and any military activity will cease. Putin single-handedly stopped Covid, which was just socio-engineering, by war on Banderites, Xi will stop nuclear war with ensuring nuclear winter, by real mass death. That will save humanity for 1-2 generations, when the 4 WW will annihilate 99% of us.
The second Spectre? Oh the irony of the dwindling iron ore capacity likely to be put into idle mode, and output in this sector possibly reduced by 35%.%...
This is what the Russians will face when they reach the Kramatorsk-Slavyansk grouping:
https://topcor.ru/73315-chto-predstavljaet-soboj-sistema-oborony-slavjanskokramatorskoj-aglomeracii.html (in Russian)
It will be the mother of all fortifications. Take the efforts to capture Avdeevka and Bakhmut and multiply them by 10 and that's what Russia must overcome.
Or, the RF prevent any re supply/reinforcement to that Ukrainian Maginot Line, surround and besiege them, then get on with capturing Odessa.
Just a thought, but if Ukraine always expected to hold the front line, why did it locate the REALLY tough fortifications so far back?
…and as usual with no substance.
When in desperate state Ukraine will increasingly turn to terrorist acts. And that before general elections in Russia, which is on 18-20th September.
This aerial station in Kiev was struck 2 months ago, because there was some military bunker or air defence system. Russian would not fire ballistic missiles into civilian earth constructions, but at hardened military targets.
So effect on station itself would be minimal and temporary.
And those supposed Korean ballictics won't be used on infrastructure, but on proper military targets. For Koreans it's live shooting range, so conditions and targets would be similar to battlefield.
Last!
The Latvian command is smoking high quality stuff.
Yup. They took the cat shit straight outta my litter box freshly dropped outta my cat's ass and didn't bother rolling it up, just smoked that shit cigar outta their lips on fire
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😘😛 What a cool crowd, I should hang out here more often.
And his hairdo proves it.
This Mamon is probably a friend of Tovariska GM.
"Gotta Devil's Haircut on my mind..." 😁
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Obviously, they've recruited Cheech & Chong as their strategists.
That might be a significant improvement if it were true.
And? What is going to happen to them other than the occasional bad trip?
Yesterday the Polish president officially said that the goal of Poland is to kill as many Russians as possible.
That is effectively a declaration of war -- the president, speaking in official capacity, is declaring that Poland will be killing Russians.
If Russia was run by proper leadership what would have followed is an official demand for clarification/confirmation on those remarks, i.e. is Poland formaly declaring war on Russia, or is the president going to withdraw those remarks as well as all material support for Ukraine?
If not the latter, then military-technical measures are to be taken within the next 24 hours to permanently neutralize the threat coming from Poland, forever.
But Russia is not run by proper leadership, it is owned by comprador elites begging to be readmitted into the club (never mind the club does not want them) and there is no level of treason they will not stoop to in the name of preserving their current wealth and power, so Poland is indeed free to kill as many Russians as it wants to. And so is Latvia, and countless others who shouldn't even be able to contemplate that out of fear of the immediate consequences of trying it.
Because for the Russian leadership those Russian lives matter not at all.
I didn't need Nawrocki to say that to have figured it out.
I think the globalist goons are the ones who are desperate to get Putin & Team on their sides, if not why they kept on claiming he is "Jew" and he is one of Schwab'sWEF trained "young leaders"?!?!? The Guy is Soviet Era KGB Agent for crying out loud. He is in his 70s.
They do this on one hand, while on the other they attempt to assassinate or at least call for his assassination. They are the f ups in the room. Putin is the Good Guy. These criminals plans are to split Russia into several failed crap holes as they have everywhere else they were allowed. Russia as a country should Guard Herself with All Her Might.
The Russian Leadership is not anything bad. They are Xtremely wise and patient. To their Credit.
I don't understand why the polish would do such thing. Didn't the Ukrapian Nazis murder over 100K of them in WW2, all of which were civilian villagers. They should line up against Ukrapia if anything. Thanks for the headlines.
>The Guy is Soviet Era KGB Agent for crying out loud. He is in his 70s.
Do you have any idea who collapsed the USSR?
Bolsheviks.................and their banker friends in the City of London.
No, it wasn't Bolsheviks, it was the predatory neo-bourgeoise faction of the nomenklatura together with the analogous layer in the KGB. None of those people were bolsheviks in any meaningful sense of the word, this wasn't the 1910s/20s/30s anymore, it was two, three generations forward in time.
Now guess which faction in the KGB Putin likely belonged to given how he likes to spit on the USSR every time he gets a chance.
It was Oligarchs and bankers who stripped Russia of it's wealth they are pro-Zionists and ruthless mobsters. Most Russians spit on the USSR as the ideology of communism failed them and the Rothchild factions robbed them.
Putin was a USSR loyalist, not a dissident. It's why he wants to recreate the USSR Empire (albeit under a new flag).
I am talking about how the criminal West Treats Putin, and not about who collapsed the USSR as that is not the question I was addressing.
Are you new here? Trying to reason with GM is like trying to reason with a Buzz Lightyear doll. No matter how many times you pull the string, you get the same bullshit every time.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 you're hilarious. No I don't know GM and I am not new to Substack, I sporadically post and read. But one thing is for sure: I already like you😛. Thank you so much for the laugh. I needed it😂.
Also of note amidst all the joyful celebration of Russia's victory, Turkey is beginning to restrict Russian egress from the Black Sea through the Dardanelles.
The way I understand the story is Türkiye is restricting shipping going to Russia and Ukraine because of attacks on those ships. I didn’t see that they’re keeping ships in the Black Sea.
Just a detail that may not matter in the long run. Kinda like Hormuz.
That’s true, both that they’re restricting shipping going to Russia (rather than from) and that it won’t matter in the long run. They plan to prevent Russia from crossing the Dardanelles, rendering Russian ports useless for commerce. I guess in theory, as currently stated, laden ships could leave from Russia, make deliveries, and end up in St. Petersburg, but the net effect is the same, and I wouldn’t bet on Turkey maintaining the literal policy if Russia doesn’t react forcefully.
Well, let’s think about how this fits with the new defense pact between turkyie, Saudi and Pakistan.
Alastair Crooke suggested China is behind it. Im thinking the plan is to restrict Ukraine exports and move Russia’s exports via alternate routes. The INSTC for example.
There was a recent report on the highway from Tehran to Turkestan and from there to China.
China’s getting soybeans from Brazil now shutting down American farmers. (For example).
It’s a “death by 1000cuts” sort of thing.
I just point out options. Which path is followed will swing back and forth for years yet. I mean it took nearly 2 decades to get the Ukraine war going. Putin takes about at the 2007 Munich Security Conference.
I’m more interested in getting the American banksters under control. Something that directly impacts me.
Is that selfish? 😊
Not buying it. Russia has already “restricted” Ukrainian exports to the point of zero, so this has no effect on them, and wtf right would China have to cause Russia to move exports via alternate routes? I think Alex Christoforou’s explanation is much more persuasive: this was at US command as a way to try to neutralize Russia’s accomplishment and perhaps force Russian submission to the also proposed cease fire.
They have now ended the restrictions apparently, but this is obvious salami slicing to a total blockade on Russia, which will come eventually.
And Putin gave these people a free nuclear power plant. With all the training. So that they can get nukes one day and become impossible to defeat...
Hadn't heard they were stopping, but yes, it's an obvious salami slice that YET AGAIN has gone unchallenged. I've just about concluded that Russian leadership is fully complicit in western schemes. It's the old "we've established what you are, now we're just haggling over price" thing all over again.
I guess we'll have to see, won't we? Because your predictions clearly foretell an eventual Ukrainian/western victory and a Russian defeat. I don't believe that will happen and am tired of arguing against the same position every time - Russia is dumb and Ukraine is outfoxing it six ways from Sunday - but if it does, let me be the first to congratulate you on your perspicacity.
If not, assume a proportionate exhibition of mockery.
That's a very spirited and inspired defense, and quite passionate. However, I was actually not talking to you. I was addressing GM's argument. And your taking me to task like a schoolmarm is kind of a turn-on, although your opinion of me never entered the equation on my side. I never once thought you were forecasting a Ukrainian victory; I take it as read by your other commentary that you understand that perfectly well. But I am afraid you are fluffing up like a cat over nothing. Your opinion is your own; I don't agree, but like I said - when I was talking to GM, whose own argument is not the least bit unpredictable - we'll have to see.
Unless you were flying to his defense, which implies a whole 'nother dynamic.
It's simple math.
And also a fundamental mistake to see this as a war between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is just a firing platform now for the West to launch drones and missiles into Russia. And that is the only proper way to see it -- as a war between Russia and the West. One in which the West strikes Russia but Russia does not strike the West. Well, that is a one-way street to defeat.
The exchange ratio is something to zero in favor of the West, with that something growing constantly and reaching ever deeper into Russia.
Today they hit Tobolsk, FFS.
You can't have that situation persist indefinitely because when you integrate something over infinity you eventually overwhelm any system.
There are three options here:
1. Russia does something drastic that forces the exchange ratio to be zero to zero again
2. Russia does something drastic that turns the exchange ratio between it and the West from the current something to zero in the West's favor to something to something bigger in Russia's favor
3. Russia is slowly but surely destroyed by staying on the current course.
It took nearly 15 years to collapse Syria, but collapse it did eventually. These things take time.
Western nations are a shambling, zombified husk crumbling in real time, before our eyes. Losing a finger here, part of its scalp there, some teeth over here. Hey guy, maybe the answer isn't "NUKE THEM ALL YESTERDAY." Maybe the west is the desperate player here.
Threat coming from Poland? Ahahahahahah! Thousands of mercenaries from Poland have already died there. They can send more to the meat grinder if they want. The Polish leadership can say squat, they are incompetent imbeciles only good at hiding behind the banderite backs.
The Polish leadership are such buffoons that their daddy US forced them to fund and arm the bandera fangirls. Need I remind you what Bandera and his cronies did to hundreds of thousands of poles during WWII?
Who the heck can take the Polish leadership serious if they are such morons.
Yes, threat from Poland
The drones that today killed a dozen people in Nizhnekamsk and hit the petrochemical plant in Tobolsk (!!!) did not come from Ukraine, they just passede through it. Before that they were in Poland.
Well ofcourse you would want Russian leadership to attack Poland/Nato and for what? Some loudmouth moron comments to his russophobic audience??? Why would Russia even listen to what this irrelevant clown has to say? Let Poland launch strikes directly at Russia and see what comes back but we both know that would never happen becouse Poland would turn in to a parking lot in 20min. Russia has a winning formula in Ukraine and no matter how much yapping comes out of likes of you RF will not attack Europe unless its attacked first.
>Russia has a winning formula in Ukraine
Really?
On March 30th 2022 Russia controlled twice as much of Ukraine as it does today.
And all Ukraine had to strike back was a limited stockpile of old Soveit Tochka-U TBMs with 180 km range.
Today heavy and light cruise missiles are hitting Tobolsk and Omsk.
How is that winning?
>Well ofcourse you would want Russian leadership to attack Poland/Nato and for what?
You really are that stupid, aren't you? You think what we are talking about here is some symbolic strike that will just add another proxy to fire from?
No, if you are going to strike, you strike strategically, for total annihilation, then move in with ground forces, kill off every single survivor you find, and there is no more Poland (or any other countr) ever again, it becomes Russian territory permanently.
That way you eliminate the threat, physically and permanently. And you enforce deterrence for anyone else who feels brave.
The current approach is how you get defeated terminally.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😘😛 pretty good. thank you...
Bravo, bravo!
He glories in his German officer dolls.
https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Slaidi%C5%86%C5%A1
Consider the moral depravity of a senior western official talking about kidnapping the leader(s) of a sovereign country.
What a shitshow this world has become.
Inbreeding and high alcohol consumption comes at a steep price
Great idea, kidnap my dad Vlad, which will fail stunningly, except that it will bring a swift end to the Chihuahua called Latvia and maybe estonedia and Lithuanium too, sigh...were the state official officer from chi ua ua found to be responsible for such intelligent efforts
Please include Kalass' (oops! Kallas') Estonia. She needs that cookie of her own dough very much.
kidnap GM
“Reports that the Bortnitskaya aeration station has been damaged are untrue,” said ukrainian General Staff spokesperson Likhovoy, refuting the statements made by the head of the “Eidos” analytical center.
https://t.me/insiderUKR/130597
So they officially declared Putin a war criminal before he had committed any war crimes, on bogus charges, but now he is working overtime to justify the label.
Hahahaha...kidnapping Putin is a great idea! Then Putin would temporarily be replaced by Medvedev or another Russian neocon...Then Kiev gets blown off the map....Genius!
Only thing he's kidnapping is a box of donuts
And a bit of crack.
Hahaha
The level of insanity versus ignorance amongst these people is something absolutely out of sense!
Imagine if someone ir themselves would kidnapp zensky?
Only to find it, a tantruming pygmy tyrant in withdrawal is more of a liability than anything else
Cough.. Russian neocon... Cough.. It's extremely specific to US term describing less than 100 people in total. There are no neocons in Kremlin.
Well, give some credit where it's due here. At least this shows a fair amount more imagination than Kallas' and von der Lying's sanction package number 99...
Hope (i.e. delusion) springs eternal in the Ukraine.
Saw some report yesterday that UK intelligence encouraged Ukies to strike Wildberries, because Russia was almost out of missiles and could not properly retaliate and drones could be shot down. lmao
There was a very detailed PR campaign about how many missiles of each type Russia had left, not so long ago.
According to Jihadi Julian increased use of drones, glide bombs and missiles results in higher casualty rates for Rus army.
Looks like Russia created SOF units from Ukrainians that decided to fight against Ze’s regime. I wonder if they will be named 'Sudoplatov'. Hunting games for the regime specimens are about to start, I think.
Somebody going to get Konovaletsed hard.
Mikey better go to the street soon.
'"Tell us, Europeans, what can we do to help you kill more Russians?"
This isn't a scene from a Hollywood movie. This is German journalist Michael Martens of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asking Zelensky how Europeans can help him kill more Russians, at a joint press conference. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić couldn't even hide his astonishment.'
https://t.me/RussianBaZa/65009
He quickly corrected himself to 'killing Rus soldiers, of couse'. Of course.
But they all keep talking about killing all Russians. A time of reckoning will come eventually.
Wehrmacht officer descendant. Of course. lmao
https://x.com/i/status/2086334995635765592
"UK Intelligence is the Mother of all Oxymorons"
Saddam Hussein will never know the gift he shared with the world when he coined that expression... 😉
😉
>Saw some report yesterday that UK intelligence encouraged Ukies to strike Wildberries, because Russia was almost out of missiles and could not properly retaliate and drones could be shot down. lmao
They are hitting Wildberries because it is a Russian-owned business that they want to displace once the Putin regime has been toppled.
It is also why they are not hitting Ozon (the characteristics of the owners are different)
The long-term idea here is for what remains of Ozon one day to be bought up by Amazon and for Amazon to have the same monopoly in Russia as it has in the US and several countries in Europe. But on a grander scale because e-commerce is so highly developed in Russia.
Effectively Russia has been reduced to a Latin American tinpot dictatorship that the US can come in and bomb whichever way it pleases in order to make room for US business interests.
There are the same willing comprador collaborators too -- the Kiril Dmitriev 14-trillion plan was effectively a plan for the Delsy-fication of the Russian government.
Brovdi and Podolyak beg to differ.
Vent some steam.
But Amazon is also a legitimate military target. According to Ukraine's published rationale, you can buy military-type body armour (it's mostly AirSoft, but looks like military kit although it would not pass Milspecs) and drone parts from Wildberries, therefore it is contributing materially to the war effort, therefore it their premises are military targets. Taking it a step further, Ukraine argues Wildberries contributes a lot of money, through taxes, to the government which uses its revenue to buy weapons. Therefore taxpayers are military targets. That's to get around the Laws of Armed Conflict, which specifically and clearly prohibit military attacks on civilian businesses, but includes an exemption for civilian business shown to be used for military purposes and which materially contributes to the military effort.
But all of that rationale applies equally to Amazon. And to you - you're a taxpayer. So according to the law as Ukraine is trying to get it interpreted, there is really no such thing as a civilian, no protections accrue thereto and the term is meaningless.
>But Amazon is also a legitimate military target
So why aren't Amazon warehouses in the US burning then?
There is plenty of flammable cardboard there too.
At the risk of Elena flying to scold me once again that it is I who am missing the point...you are missing the point. Attacking commercial enterprises using the flimsy excuse that they sell merchandise which 'looks military' is against the law. When somebody does something that all observers know is Against The Law, and those who daily remind us that they are steeped like teabags in The Rule Of Law make not a word of demurral, then it is understood that what was forbidden is no longer Against The Law. That's called 'precedent'.
I'm not making the argument that if Russia had any stones, it would blow up a warehouse in Germany or Pasacagoula or somewhere in the west, because what would likely happen would be a general war of some magnitude: although the west is probably in the worst position in its history to start a general war of any scale, it couldn't just back down. And Russia is not crazy.
The point I am trying to make is that Russia is not the USA's only enemy, and it has some who ARE crazy. And it has just kicked the legs out from under its international-law argument that attacking civilian commercial enterprises is NOT okay. Blowing up an Amazon warehouse in the USA is most certainly still a crime - just not an international crime warranting hauling the guilty, if they can be caught, to the Hague. And I suppose I could understand it if they sacrificed the canard that America worships the law for what they believed was a constructive purpose, like being seen to scorn international law would bring Ukrainian victory or at least 'force Putin to the negotiating table'. But it will do neither of those things. You'll see.
Note that it it was up to me I would not be setting Amazon warehouses on fire.
I would be nuking Amazon data centers (they are too large for conventional strikes to do much damage, but you can sneak in a few kilotons and claim it was conventional, the way the US has done on so many occasions).
But most importantly, I would be sending an Yasen sub to torpedo Bezos's yacht, making sure he is on it and then double and triple tapping to prevent any escape of any survivors.
That is how you serve justice and enforce deterrence with minimal collateral damage.
Now, I know you do not really mean that. Surely to God you realize that torpedoing Bezos's yacht would (a) probably earn a resounding cheer among even Americans who think he is the embodiment of a wealthy plague, and (b) do absolutely nothing to balance the scales; if Bezos disappeared (not good odds as he probably uses his yacht one or two weekends a year) another like him would take his place.
And you would never risk a Yasen sub on such a mission; Russia still has a fairly large fleet of diesel boats which would be ideally suited to such a task and for whom the torpedo is the primary weapon.
You know, by the time we get done arguing, our viewpoints have grown much closer. I agree America is a bully that makes maximum use of God-given advantages in geography and natural resources to plunder allies and enemies alike, and that the injustice of it is breathtaking. But it is no part of Russia's strategic map for defeating Ukraine to take on the USA head-to-head, much as Zelinsky would shout with joy. Instead, Russia's careful navigation of the battlefield, and its habit of waiting a bit after a Ukrainian escalation so it is clear afterward that Ukraine struck first, are building an airtight case against future prosecution by some cobbled-together 'international tribunal' for war crimes. Russia is entitled to respond to an attack with proportionate force against the same or similar assets, with perhaps a little extra allowance for deterrence.
There he goes with his wet dreams again, poor thing, only thing left to hold on to
Vucic is a disgrace and Serbia has betrayed Russia too, together with Kazahstan and Azerbadjan.. Syria is gone with its ports. When Lukashenko steps down, Belarus could stumble too. The noose around Russia keeps tightening. BRICs only existed in Escobar's imagination. They were killed in the cradle.
Not that I am a fan of Vucic, and nobody I know is, but Serbia is landlocked. Whatever they need from outside has to cross EU and NATO territory. It is no joke balancing their position.
No noose is tightening around Russia.
well, it is tightening but they dont want to see it, just like you.
Lmao.
Sure, only usual whiners on substacks see the real world.
the real world is that Russia has lost almost all its allies and is under siege. Stop your dopamine boosters.
Which allies？ Venezuela? Syria? Who else? Tiny Armenia? Who else?
Are you joking theser are allies? They cannot handle thmesleves btu they could help Russia?
Turkey also is buying petroleum from Russia while supplying Ukraine ATACMS.
70 missiles that were supposedly already destroyed in a strike.
Supposedly. Apparently they are hitting Russian bridges as we speak.
ATACMS bridges, lmao. Hoe are they doing?
Apparently quite effective. Which in turn destroys (lol) the myth that Soviet bridges are somehow invulnerable.
GM and Denis are blacking out their faces with burnt corks as we speak.
A cordon has appeared around the Kremlin, but these two characters are desperate, and having kidnapped Saddam Hussein and Nicolas Maduro in the recent past, things are looking grim for Russia.
They're fighting over who gets to be the cat....
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.yPE48jsqaFCDbUNfX2MzVQHaJQ%3Fr%3D0%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=2c5caff710415b22c6d8bcc2913900b165470996a6079117907216b84d4b066f&ipo=images
This is better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lriWlHZAy8A
lol, preacher.
I sense your insecurity.
You've seen through my disguise.
Maduro tried to buy himself off by offering the US a deal all throughout 2025 instead of preparing for war by acquiring ballistic and anti-ship missiles and drones.
The US wanted total submission though.
So first they tested him by starting to kill off his fishermen, a test that he failed by never firing back at the ships sieging Venezuela, then they bought off the people around him and kidnapped him.
Putin has been trying to buy himself off the same way. He offered the US 14 trillion, but the US wants the whole 140 trillion in real wealth, not some pitiful 14.
So the US has been testing Putin's resolve by killing off his civilians, a test that he has been failing miserably by never firing a single shot back. Where does that end?
Watch this space.
Where does the US$140 TN in "real wealth" figure come from? Is this private wealth (i.e., aggregate household net worth) or includes public/govt owned balance sheet as well?
No, that is what's under the ground in Russia
Probably an estimate based on mineral resources, agricultural, etc.
Thanks Tim. When big numbers like this are thrown out, one would like something more than a "Probably an estimate based on..." // Now, clearly, references to "Western" (US/UK/NATO) sources are not what is called for, but, hey, at least something else, eh?
I doubt Putin bargaining a ruble to anyone. Please shut the F up.
Which war have you been watching for the last 13 years?
The US is not as interested in money as it is in power, domination and control.
"Money" is fake - as you say, it's the power they want.
Or it’s the same thing. Just expressed in a different language. (Format/dimension).
A bit like the chain a hypnotist sways before your eyes.
You selectively omitted Operation Gideon, the hilarious American semi-official 2020 attempt to kidnap Maduro, described by the BBC as "a staggering tale of hubris, incompetence and treachery".
https://archive.is/pveAl#selection-1363.165-1363.220
I've noticed that about America-is-omnipotent devotees; the west gets unlimited do-overs until it is successful, whereupon everything went exactly according to the irresistible plan. And I suppose that's fair enough as far as it goes, but in this instance America is trying unlimited do-overs using a proxy who is seriously struggling, in circumstances where it is fighting one war to the purported best of its ability while trying to keep a hand in a second, after having drawn down its this-shit-is-getting-serious emergency stockpiles of missiles to about a third and its Strategic Oil Reserves to the Minimum Operating Level, with an exploding national debt. Looked at that way, it's not really an impregnable position, is it? Especially against an enemy the west swore two years ago was taking apart dishwashers to get chips to build missiles.
It's fascinating that the US, which put about that story, is now unable to build its own hardware because of the Chinese refusal to sell them the seven different rare earth minerals these devices require - and so the farcical situation whereby F35s are now being delivered to the military with lumps of concrete in their noses instead of AESA radars.
The humilation of the Indispensible Nation is complete.
>America-is-omnipotent devotees
America isn't omnipotent. Yet. But it is close to achieving escape velocity beyond which moment it will be.
The question is does the rest of the world have what it takes to fight back and stop it?
The tragedy here is that America's overwhelming advantage isn't it's military might but the fact that America itself is founded on and thrives upon the worst human traits -- gluttony, avarice, sloth, vanity, etc. So it has the real superpower of easily subverting other countries' elites in a way that cannot be reciprocated.
You need saints like Dzerzhinsky, Stalin, Mao, the ayatollahs, etc. to effectively resist. And that is not sustainable because such exceptional individuals are rare while tratiors are abundant, and subversion is mostly a one-way street; it has not been reversed on very many occasions.
It hasn't fully been reversed even in Russia to this day, for example.
>the west gets unlimited do-overs until it is successful
Yes, indeed, and that is a big part of the problem.
The West does indeed get unlimited do-overs.
Because its enemies are not out to defeat it but at best just to weather the current storm, or worse, make some shitty deal that (they think) buts them some more time at the cost of making their strategic position much more unfavorable. Russia is being bombed in Siberia right now precisely because of a long series of such deals.
The only way for the West to not get unlimited do-overs is for the West to be terminally defeated. But nobody has had that as a goal for a very long time.
As someone who's lived there for 30+ years, the only thing the US is close to is systemic collapse. It's already been terminally defeated, some would argue a long time ago.
"I've noticed that about America-is-omnipotent devotees; the west gets unlimited do-overs until it is successful, whereupon everything went exactly according to the irresistible plan. "
It works. To speak of Maduro, it took several attempts, but the United States got what it wanted.
Is it working? Is it really? Are Americans farting through silk and getting fat and lazy on exports of Venezuelan oil? Did Trump establish that as a primary goal of the seizure of Venezuela? Sure did. Instead, oil executives told Trump the country was 'uninvestable' in its current state, and if America is benefiting from the export of Venezuelan oil, Americans sure don't know.
https://www.cfr.org/articles/the-u-s-took-over-venezuelas-oil-industry-where-has-all-the-money-gone
If you mean money from oil sales is flowing directly into Trump's pockets with zero accountability, I don't know how that could be said to be 'working'; it merely exchanges one leader who the USA claimed was corrupt for another one everybody can see is corrupt.
Not contributing to paying down the national debt, either, which expands by an average $10 Billion every day, and is already well over 100% of GDP. Meanwhile the national poverty rate is over 11%.
Paul Singer, Israel, Citgo, something something literacy rates, percentage of americans that cant even afford to fix their teeth...
The American regime got the replacement of the Venezuelan government. Trump got a slush fund and source of skim.
Nobody cares about ordinary Americans, the debt,etc..
The national debt is an illusion, a deception, a chimerical construct that holds everyone in thrall.
If you borrow numbers on a balance sheet, you are not borrowing anything; so you can repay whatever was borrowed with other numbers on another balance sheet.
The entire scam is designed to let jews live off the sweat of your brow.
As Hitler - the evil man, the worst ever - pointed out, and replaced the system with one which valued the Reichsmark against work done, and goods produced.
So he had to be destroyed.
his mistake was to use a known location, one that Delta had trained for months on a copy of. Had he used only new locations with a proper dug in and guarded perimeter around them it would not have been possible to prepare to the degree required. He needed to shake up his whole security and get out of caracas. But did not want to be seen as hiding
>get out of caracas
Indeed. The man had some of the densest jungle in the world to hide in and he stayed right on the coast instead. Absolutely idiotic.
The US never penetrated much deeper than the coast line in their attack
Great Report!
I reckon it will work as good as that fat bastard's hair style to pick up hot women. (to quote a phrase)
Ferocity? I think you meant Russia's continued war crimes. But I'm sure Putin will reward you with a potato for being a loyal vatnik.
The crimes began with Brzhinsky's book the grand chess board; when it was advocated that Ukraine should be used as a geopolitical lever to destabilize Russia in the interests of US hegemony; the so called end of history.
They continued with Nuland's feeding $5 billion US into the nation, to promote Banderism, which of course has always been an issue in Ukraine.
And of course the endless attacks on sleeping students, people on beaches or in markets, etc etc.
Note how Russia always attacks its targets at night, so as to minimize civilian deaths.
It is useless to answer to liers and fanatics with rational arguments.
It's not really to answer them, but simply to lay out the opposing case for everybody else - who otherwise will subconsciously imbibe what the liar says.
Better just to troll them.
So why did Brzezinski live to see the results of his plan and then died in peace several years after the Maidan?
Why did Nuland live to be back in power to oversee the transition to large-scale war too and still hasn't been touched even after that?
In fact she was in the Kremlin a few weeks prior to February 2022 threatening Putin directly. Why was she allowed to leave and not sent to Kolyma to dig for gold at -50C until her ovesity issue is terminally resolved?
Why are Witkoff and Kushner going to do the same next week and they will not be sent to Kolyma either?
Rhetorical questions galore
Effectively, these people are not the primary drivers of conflict; they simply express what the deep state agenda is.
So if you help them to lose weight, or send a missile to their house, somebody else will step up to replace them.
The best explanation for this agenda I can find is that jews never forgive; and Russia backed Egypt and the Arabs during the seven-day war - you will know that they still hate what they call "Amalek" 3500 years after being attacked by them after they exited from Egypt in the Exodus.
Plus of course, Putin stopped them from raping the nation after the collapse of the USSR, and the era of the oligarchs.
>jews never forgive
And Putin works for them.
If that were the case, why did he stop them from looting Russia?
When did he do that?
The annual capital outflow measured in hundreds of billions continues to this day. It reduced a little bit under Putin, then reduced a bit more due to sanctions, but it never stopped.
And 50% of Russian oligarchs are still Jewish
Now I've seen everything. An attribution of essential rectitude to Brzezinski just because he didn't die young. As if, if he was wrong, God would have put His finger on his forehead and terminated his noodle, as a sign to the rest of us. If Russia's cause was truly just, as it claims, its opponents would die from opposing it. I'm speechless. Well done.
Your argument - and I can't swear to have pinned it down, because it keeps shifting - seems to be that Russia will never win unless it becomes just like its opponent.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-threatens-long-prison-terms-193018422.html
No, Russia doesn't have to become like its opponent. But that is what Putin has been doing.
It's opponent has been killing civilians in huge numbers for centuries. Russia doesn't have to be doing that.
But what has Putin spent the last five years doing? Genociding ethnically Russian working class males on both sides of the front line.
When it all could have been ended by taking out the (mostly non-Russian) leadership in Ukraine.
But what we have instead is that the (mostly non-Russian) Ukro-Nazi leadership enjoys ironclad guarantees that it won't be touched. Meanwhile the Russian civilians have no guarantees for their safety.
Brezinsky = biggest scum ever.
(...) The crimes began with Brzhinsky's book the grand chess board; when it was advocated that Ukraine should be used as a geopolitical lever to destabilize Russia in the interests of US hegemony; the so called end of history. (...)
Unfortunately, your post is missing the crucial element in the explanation of the Heartland Theory—an element without which it is practically impossible to understand the theory as a whole (which, in my opinion, remains relevant to this day).
The starting point of the analysis is the influential Heartland Theory, which the British geographer developed and presented for the first time in 1904.
According to Mackinder, Europe, Asia, and Africa are viewed as the great "World-Island." This term stems from the fact that the World-Island encompasses the majority of the population and the bulk of natural resources. The Heartland comprises Eastern Europe and North Asia and is virtually identical to the territory of the Soviet Union.
According to this theory, Eurasia—with its vast resources of population, energy, and raw materials—is the world's true center of power (the "Heartland"). Glenn Diesen writes in his book that maritime powers outside Eurasia, such as Great Britain and later the USA (the "Rimland"), must therefore constantly strive to prevent the geoeconomic integration of Eurasia—employing a "divide-and-rule" approach—in order to maintain their geostrategic supremacy.
The Heartland is encircled by an "inner crescent"—a formation of coastal lands arranged in a crescent shape (the "inner or marginal crescent"). Countries located here include Germany, Turkey, India, and China, among others.
The remainder belongs to the "outer crescent"—lands situated away from the coasts (the "lands of the outer or insular crescent"). These include the Americas and Australia. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland-Theorie
In 1919, Mackinder expanded his theory, stating that the Heartland is securely accessible only from the west. (1)
The geography of Eurasia.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurasian_mass.jpg
This observation is crucial for understanding today's events.
In his book *Democratic Ideals and Reality* (often referred to as the Heartland Theory), Mackinder describes how he arrived at this conclusion.
The difficulty in conquering the World-Island lies in the fact that mountain ranges make access from the south nearly impossible, while the seas are too distant. From the east, thousands of kilometers of wilderness obstruct the path before one can reach Russia's major population and industrial centers.
In contrast, there is a broad geographical gateway to the "Russian fortress" in the west. This gateway potentially offers the Heartland access to strategically important maritime trade routes. At the same time, however, it serves as an entry point for military invasions from Europe into the heart of the landmass. (2)
Mackinder designated Eastern Europe as the "strategic Heartland," giving rise to his famous maxim:
"Who rules Eastern Europe commands the Heartland
Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island
Who rules the World-Island commands the World"
Mackinder, *Democratic Ideals and Reality*, p. 106 (3)
Ultimately, in 1943, the British scholar expanded his theory in a third essay. He warned that military air superiority could not override the principles of the Heartland Theory—a crucial detail that remains relevant to this day. (4)
The story of how the Heartland Theory was further developed and instrumentalized in the USA—and how it eventually served as the foundation for the US policy of containment, formulated by George F. Kennan just a few years later—is fascinating and described in detail here. (5)
Brzezinski’s analysis was ultimately just the culmination of the ideas held by those deranged Anglo-Saxon neocons, but it was by no means the original concept!
In 1940, Spykman—a professor of international relations at Yale—took up Mackinder’s thesis regarding the decisive importance of the Eurasian Heartland but established new premises to formulate a US security strategy. Spykman was determined to prevent the rulers of the Heartland from expanding into adjacent territories. He reinterpreted what Mackinder had termed the "Inner Crescent" as the "Rimlands" encircling the Heartland. (6)
Professor John Spykman posited that the Heartland itself was not the decisive factor; instead, he argued that the Inner Crescent—which he dubbed the "Rimland"—held primary strategic importance.
Division of the world according to Rimland Theory: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Heartland+map&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image
Mackinder’s theories differ on one essential point: which specific region must be controlled in order to dominate the world.
Mackinder holds the view that it is the Heartland itself that must be controlled. To achieve this, control over Eastern Europe is essential. Spykman, on the other hand, argues that controlling the Rimland is sufficient to contain and dominate the Heartland (and that the Heartland itself can be left alone).
In the standard interpretation of his theory, Iran is explicitly included in the West Asian section of the Rimland; Spykman—or the secondary literature—lists the "Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan" or "Asia Minor, Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, China, Korea..."
in this context. The classification for the Middle East would thus be, for example:
– Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Jordan
– Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan
– Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states
In Spykman’s framework, Iran occupies a central Rimland position between the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, and India!
A brief digression: After the end of World War II, Churchill urged the USA to attack the Soviet Union using atomic bombs and deploying all Western armies, including German troops. The USA refused. The conduct of both states and their leaders reflects their respective geopolitical doctrines. (…) The USA later crossed all moral boundaries when it came to its number one objective: the Rimland. (7)
It is therefore hardly surprising that the military bases and alliances established by the USA immediately after World War II focused on the Rimland. US global military bases: https://www.basenation.us/maps.htm
Another example is the military alliances the USA formed immediately after World War II.
1949 NATO: containment of the Heartland from the west.
1951 Japan Security Treaty: containment of the Heartland from the east.
1954 Southeast Asia Treaty Organization: containment of the Heartland from the southeast.
1955 saw the Middle East Treaty Organization: the containment of the Heartland from the southwest. (8)
Now, NATO’s eastward expansion can also be viewed in the proper light—an expansion ruthlessly pushed forward in defiance of all promises and assurances made to Russia, and one that remains unfinished in the sick fantasies of the Epstein elite. Ukraine—and indirectly Iran, which is a (perhaps even *the*) decisive element in controlling the Rimland—lies at the heart of this strategy.
One would have to be completely blinded by ideology not to see that Russia’s security concerns are entirely real. NATO has comprehensively occupied the gateway to Russia’s western border, with Ukraine serving as the final bastion. An unbroken front—stretching in a direct line between the Baltic and Black Seas—has been established to plunder Russia’s natural resources, fragment the country, and bring it under control just as happened during the Yeltsin years. It was an Eldorado for Western financial elites and their political and military vassals.
Proof that this statement is no mere conspiracy theory, but rests on a real foundation, is found in a campaign supported by the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Washington, D.C.: the decolonization of Russia as a moral and strategic imperative. (9)
The Anglo-Saxon maritime powers—whose elites are cannibalistic pedophiles, a fact one should never forget—have tried to prevent German-Russian cooperation at all costs to this very day. Divide and conquer—the strategy of every empire in world history.
The blowing up of the Nord Stream pipeline by the Anglo-Saxons and their Norwegian vassal—as Seymour Hersh has conclusively demonstrated—must also be understood in this context. (10)
When German warmongers and their media—dripping with venom—once again rail against Russia and Putin, we now know who is responsible and, above all, who benefits from it.
Sources:
(1) https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/78/183/2023/
(2) https://ia800902.us.archive.org/9/items/1904HEARTLANDTHEORYHALFORDMACKINDER/1904%20HEARTLAND%20THEORY%20HALFORD%20MACKINDER_text.pdf, S. 423 ff.
(3) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland-Theorie
(3) https://www.europa.clio-online.de/searching/id/q63-78139?language=de
(4) ) Halford J. Mackinder, The Round World and the Winning of the Peace, in: Foreign Affairs 21/4 (1943), S. 595-605.
(5) https://www.europa.clio-online.de/searching/id/q63-78139?language=de
(6) ibid
(7) http://analitik.de/2015/10/05/die-kontinuitaet-der-geopolitik/
(8) ibid
(9) https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/press-and-media/press-releases/decolonization-russia-be-discussed-upcoming
(10) https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
Well sourced and comprehensive comments like that are commendable. It is necessary to post all of those facts occasionally here. Few will read it all because it is very long and detailed for a blog comment.
Long and detailed doesn't mean correct, though.
Where you are on the map is less important than how much oil and gas you have beneath your nation; and whether you have a central bank or not.
https://substack.com/@debarelli/note/c-295160371?r=1epqkb&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I copied it over in a text document rather than reading in the thread. I will never get around to reading Brezinski or MacKinder
Sounds like McKinder Junior had a world map above his cot, and began to dream.
In actual fact, we no longer have to invade nations to control them; the control is better achieved via the banking system, which is run not by "Anglo Saxon cannibals and paedophiles", but by jews.
No mention of this latter group, who are behind all the problems we face.
Remove the jews, and you immediately remove Trump's devastatingly destructive influence on world affairs.
Here we have a recent example of their intimate involvement in the demonization process; and what normal people think about it.
https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/08/10/2504274.html
'War crimes' (sic). How quaint. How last century. You can congratulate Israel on changing the entire world view. I suppose it had to start there.
It's interesting that you use this term "war crimes."
One of the YT channels I watch has a woman - the widow of a UAF pilot - wandering around a part of Kiev and talking about exactly the same thing - she says Russian missiles have targeted the area several times; but the interesting thing is that she shows multiple high-rise buildings with zero damage to them.
I believe this sort of thing is called "cognitive dissonance," ie something is demonstrably untrue, but you keep saying it, because not to do so separates you from the narrative you have swallowed.
This YT channel isn't the one I was talking about, but it's one of my favourites - she expresses exactly the same ideas though; somebody who is really likeable, but who really has no idea why things are as they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1gt5eWQpBU
Yeah, deep inside she knows why she is not panicking. She knows her life is not in danger and she can sleep relatively peacefuly, except for the sounds.
Such a contrast with images from Donbass targeted by the Kiev junta since 2014.
Another difference in behaviour of Ukrowestnazi and Russian army: Russians don't target the firefighters and the rescuers when they arrive at the scene.
Exactly.
They are all convinced that Russia is the aggressor.
It's hard to fathom.
It's as if the ATO which triggered the whole thing never happened.
The evidence that ATO (i.e. Kiev junta aggression on Donbass) did happen exists and no one can erase it nor ignore it. Checkmate!
There is someone the Donbas residents call "The Madonna of Donbass."
This is - or was - a young woman who was out walking with her young child in 2014 when a Ukrainian missile slammed into her, blowing off her leg, and murdering the child, whom she clutched in her arms as she lay dying.
Never forget.
I remember that video. Hideous. But speak to the propagandized and it never happened. Just like the 14,500 dead never happened. Including more than 500 children.
Another 'critical thinker' that has issues with context, cause and effect and chronological order.
Blessed is this day.
I'm not convinced she actually thinks.
Like most girls, she just feels.
Thanks for filling in three spaces on my NAFO bingo card in a single, poorly constructed paragraph, Comrade. 😉
Zelensky rewards you with an Azov medal.
Wrong stack bro
..... the economic and industrial capacity of the Western supporters could lead to a resource advantage over Russia in the long term." quote
How can S say he even partially agrees with that???? It is a ludicrous statement at every level.
I don't see where S implied that at all. Maybe I missed it even after reading it a second time?
He used a qualifier 'however'. It deserved a far more robust response. That is all I am saying, Victor. Maybe I am just getting tired of the so called balanced 'giving Ukrainian prop the benefit of any doubt' commentary.
On kidnapping Putin: “It would make the charge of the light brigade seem like a sensible military operation.” (From The Eagle Has Landed)