Another day, another round of war-mongering, fear-mongering, and propaganda from the panic-stricken Eurocrats who are desperate to whitewash Ukraine’s collapse with the “Russia invades Europe” narrative:
I wish the UK plenty of luck mobilizing the sons and daughters of millions of African and South Asian immigrants that they took in. Somehow I don't think that it'll be a one to one replacement of the old English-heritage troops
IMO, it won't happen. Perfidious Albion has no logistics to project force into Eastern Europe. The Kursk debacle, reportedly led by a British officer who committed suicide recently, was their best shot. And even at the Empire's peak, they didn't fare very well at the 1855 Battle of Balaclava either.
Simply speaking, Brits are the wicked brain (Intelligence services/spy networks - colonial legacy) and the slush fund, and the U.S. is the brawn of the Global (Imperialist) Oligarchy.
Britain exerts influence through partial ownership of the FED. City of London is the headquarter of the global banking cartel. Besides, City of London basically runs all the main offshore funds.
AND It still runs Israel through the Pilgrim Society, Privy Council, RIAA, etc.
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CFR in the US and Chatham House in the UK. They are one and the same entity
Due to the "globalism", we now have INTERNATIONAL FASCISM (IMPERIALISM), instead of a national fascism (NAZISM), an unholy alliance b/w ONE big UNIPARTY government (like EU/UK/US) and big TRANSNATIONAL Corporations' Oligarchs, to establish Global monopoly/dominance.
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Global capitalism (Imperialism) and twenty-first century fascism: a US case study:
They do not hold allegiance to any single nation-state. Their only allegiance is to their Assets/Capital.
The Globalist/Imperialist Financial Oligarchy is primarily invested in the US Stock market, so they care bout their stocks, not "their" people.
In that sense, any POTUS cares about Americans as little as he does about Germans. Or Ukrainians for that matter. "Basket of deplorables", as fascist Clinton called the people.
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And some of the most stupid globalist shills openly admit it:
Nations may still have the decorative elements of a State like flag, anthem and national soccer team, but the fundamentals like Financial, Economic and Politic systems are controlled by the globalists' establishment. So it's just a husk of a State, actually.
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"The U.S. did not defeat Fascism in WW2, It discretely Internationalized It"
As UK PM Tony Blair famously declared in his "Chicago speech" in support of Iraq war in 1999:
"The most pressing foreign policy problem we face is to identify the circumstances in which we should get actively involved in other people’s conflicts"
Where is the Catholic Church to excommunicate the major war criminal Tony the Pious?
"former British Prime Minister Tony Blair converted to Roman Catholicism six months after leaving office. While serving as Prime Ministe, Blair was a member of the Church of England but regularly attended Mass with his wife, Cherie, and their children, who were all practicing Catholics. Blair has described his faith as a "living and growing belief" and "hugely important" to him.
Tony is a prominent war profiteer, along with his pious wife Cherie.
A cherry on the tope: "In July 2025, reports alleged that Tony Blair's staff participated in discussions about plans for postwar Gaza governance that favored corporate interests over Palestinian needs."
The Blair creature is most probably the single most perverse criminal of a continuing long line of criminals that have made No10 Downing Street a whore house.
I assume the Jesuit head of the Catholic Church of Satan is Blair's bad faith, the irony of Satans seat carried on the shoulders of millions of true Christians, would surely inspire Blair's bent for betrayal, as he passes through the chior boys.
Every religion has been weaponized by Imperialism.
Brits did it in India to put Hindus against Muslims (Pakistan), and even Muslims against each other (Sunni vs Shia), they also created the ethno-supremacist ideology called Zionism and founded their colony called Israel to put Jews against Arabs.
1999 was the year of bombing Yugoslavia under the pretext “humanitarian assistance “ to Kosovar terrorist insurgence. Invention of slogan RTP (right to protect) is coming directly from British perfidy Albion's political kitchen to save the NATO purpose after the fall of Soviet Union .Their problem “ … to identify the circumstances in which we should get actively involved in other people’s conflicts" was resolved by invention of fake humanitarian pretext .
In order to understand what kind of people run NATO, read this story about bombing a passenger train, and how General Wesley Clark, who was the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, showed the video of the bombing at the press conference, claiming that "the train had been traveling too fast and the bomb was too close to the target for it to divert in time". After, The Pentagon and NATO stated that it was an error caused by the result of the video being sped up for "battle damage assessment" purposes, but not being slowed again for the press conference…:
Its the mix of beer and gin with a dash of tonic. If ever I was charged with raising a mercenary army I'd head to the South of England, it's not the fish and chips after a night on the beer that makes them so aggressive, it's the chips on their shoulders.
The Brits just hit a Russian submarine at port and blew it up. Russia doesn't scare anybody. The Brit elites don't care about dead Ukrainians. They are not deterring the Brits, but encouraging them by their weak response. Hit the elites, the communication lines of government.
Perfidious Albion failing at what they are best at, namely terrorism.
"High-quality satellite imagery from Novorossiysk Naval Base shows that the Ukrainian underwater drone missed the Varshavyanka-class Submarine, detonating against the pier. Any damage to the vessel is likely minimal."
Simply speaking, Brits are the wicked brain (Intelligence services/spy networks - colonial legacy) and the slush fund, and the U.S. is the brawn of the Global (Imperialist) Oligarchy.
The Brit elites don't care about dead Brits either.
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"When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die."
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings."
He would know, better than most, maybe. They come by the term honestly. I had a limey boss once, he cheated to win a work Outing prize at a sports bar restaurant. I said to him of course Perfidious Albion, is what you twits are best known for.
I knew Kursk was most likely British idea, same as Bucha, I just didn't think it was a Brit actually "leading" this invasion in Kursk. Brits usually like to make someone else to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for them.
I don't know what "lead" means here, but I have seen videos from a camera of a dead Anglophoni participating in the Belgorod incursion. Owner of the camera gets boinked by an artillery strike, but in the video they talk about an American commander that was killed during the operation. "Amerikanets pogib"
This was a story on one of the Russian Telegram channels a few weeks ago, to be taken with a measure of salt. However, these unofficial sources are still more often proven true than the western Mockingbird media. The British have never admitted being in charge of anything in 404, much less Kursk. But, several sources in the Russian govt have said otherwise, many times. Zelensky and his generals are just there to take the blame.
It is trade routes. If they had Crimea they could bottle up Russia on the east coast and deny them access out of the black sea. This weakens Russian trade opportunities and easy ship access to the med, the ME, and North Africa. This brings Russia to its knees... or so they hoped
true, trade routes. it's why the US will eventually go after Iran, trying to control the pivot that is the ME. however, to get started they first need to secure alternative sources for access to oil, hence Venezuela.
If the Brits and others were not on the ground, Ukraine would have been swept away long ago in my view.., Remember Biden letting the truth out while addressing a group of American troops I guess in Germany, stating that they'd soon be in Ukraine for some mission?
LOL, yeah sure keep believing that nonsense. It has been NATO leading which has led to 1.7 million casualties . At least the Ukrainians (which are just brainwashed Russians) have the balls to fight and not run and hide and attack civilians like the Brits and Navy SEALS
A handful of untrained Boer militia ripped the crown a new arsehole so bad that the UK queen bee had to literally pull off a genocide on the tiny Boer nation to bring them to their knees. The crown suffered so many losses in such a short space of time that it had to pull troops from other garrisons to die on the South African fields, which in turn destabilised the balance of power in the colonies from where they were drawn from. So yes, I don't have much faith in the historic fighting abilities of the British army troops. Gangsters and thugs in uniform at best. The Brits are now under the spell of The Boer Curse. Karma is a cold bitch.
Churchill was there, lending a hand or some such nonsense. got away, got in debt and sold us out into fighting WW2. and we have to believe that "the rest is history", but it isn't.
first use of concentration camps ( a british innovation ) as a means of starving women and children to bring in the boer fighters to where they could eventually be defeated
blockades and starvation have always been a favored british tactic
none of that "stiff upper lip" and "fair fighting" for the brits, sir!
Even more technically, Spain used "re concentration camps" during the first Cuban revolution which ended with the Spanish-American war; These camps were in operation from 1896-1898.
"In 1896, General Weyler of Spain implemented the first wave of the Spanish "Reconcentracion Policy" that sent thousands of Cubans into concentration camps. Under Weyler's policy, the rural population had eight days to move into designated camps located in fortified towns; any person who failed to obey was shot. The housing in these areas was typically abandoned, decaying, roofless, and virtually uninhabitable. Food was scarce and famine and disease quickly swept through the camps. By 1898, one third of Cuba's population had been forcibly sent into the concentration camps. Over 400,000 Cubans died as a result of the Spanish Reconcentration"
"A handful of untrained Boer militia ripped the crown a new arsehole so bad that the UK queen bee had to literally pull off a genocide on the tiny Boer nation to bring them to their knees."
Well, the British, French, Turks, Germans, Poles, Swiss, Piedmontese and Italians did take Sebastopol from the Russian and Greek defenders in the end, but at considerable cost and after one hell of a struggle.
The Germans and Western Ukrainians pushed Russia out in WW1 too. The Nazis and Western Ukrainians (or do I repeat myself) did it again in WW2. As a funny side note when Germany got in trouble in WW1 they left Crimea to shore up the Western front. The French snuck in and occupied it. The Bolsheviks eventually managed to get a military together and came down. The French quietly left without a fight.
I didn’t know about the WW1 and Bolshevik episodes. As for the French, though, I’d say discretion was the better part of valour in that instance. What use would the Crimea have been to France? And after surviving the Western Front, who among the thinned, war battered remnants of the French army would have wanted to lose his life in 1919, for a desolate foreign peninsula on the far side of the Black Sea? The British force sent to Murmansk in 1919 to fight Trotsky mutinied and had to be withdrawn.
I think Simplicius is missing what is most important right now - the real possibility of NUCLEAR WAR, (tactical battlefield anyway, but how can it be limited to that? There are all sorts of nukes) We know the Russians are being targeted by NATO assets using NATO member missiles, and are throwing a fit internally, especially in the military, and moving weapons around, including nuclear capable missiles 11 minutes from Miami. We are getting a lot of Measheimer recently as he explains how mighty adversaries face off against each other. Aren't decapitation strikes the most efficient? Kill Boris and Starmer, and the Brits would cheer! Dr. Doctorow got blasted but he said nothing that Paul Craig Roberts said long ago. Russia's lack of response is seen as weakness.
He's completely missing the point of diagnosing your mental illness. I suggest you spend a few years meditating in the kitchens of a military barracks; at least there they'll teach you the meaning of every letter in the word WAR. There won't be a nuclear conflict, not even with a 10 kg mini-nuke, because it's not the warhead that will determine the demise of the person who launches it, but the term NUCLEAR. What do you think, that leaders aren't as afraid of the sound of thunder as you are? What do they call you in your neighborhood? The walking lunatic, the mentally challenged one, the degenerate...?
The point is Russia is not fighting Ukraine but Europe through NATO and Starmer, Macron, and Mertz are not afraid, but need war to survive. Mearsheimer was the one who brought up "nuclear" option before I did, and Veterans Today/ Gordon Duff reported the repeated use of tactical nukes already, including an all in exchange between Russia and Ukraine back in 2014. There is a great deal of technical over-hang here for both sides to expand the war, and NATO is attacking deep into Russia with nuclear capable missiles and taking out its navy with British sea drones. This is a hybrid war fighting on Financial, propaganda, as well as military theaters and in my neighborhood my military related relatives believe Russia is evil and we have to win. That's how the military thinks. So I think you are attached emotionally to the editorializing which is not balanced, and there is real danger here.
Oh look everyone, we have a virtue signaler. His point, is an obvious one. The recently imported population of the UK is far less likely to volunteer for this nonsense than the legacy native born population. I don’t blame them either. Maybe you can volunteer though, or better yet go on one of those combat vacations that some of countrymen seem to be so fond of.
When one figures that that the concept of race was infact invented to promote racism, the term takes on a different hue…. Everyone is mortal and as such they discriminate. I’m aware of mine, and the center on Content of Character rather than farce shape and skin tone. What are yours?
Character is not an attribute of race. If you truly discriminate on character than you are discriminating on an individual basis. If you assign characteristics, particularly negative, to a group of people based on race then you are a) wrong and b) being racist, like that Dhdh clown.
Osman is just an insulting blowhard, determined to defend the conduct of the british government and intel services to the end
he also denies that the british commonwealth has any significance at all. - to which I say, "if it has no significance and doesn't serve british interests, why not dissolve it?"
and by way of answering my own question: The answer is obvious: the Commonwealth serves not only political and propaganda purposes (in the UN, for instance) but it also serves as a source for intelligence operatives (native) and for economic plunder
some of the world's poorest countries are exploited by the Commonwealth, they gain 0 advantages from membership (except maybe their corrupt rulers) but they provide a big, useful sandbox for british machinations worldwide.
Hes gonna look so cute in green once his beloved crown dresses him up and throws him into combat. I've seen a few panty assed faggots like him. Mercifully they don't last long. They cry a lot and and their own team usually snuffs them simply to get some decent rest and to stop drawing unwanted attention. That's war for you.
the Commonwealth is nothing but an extensive network of heavily exploited territory and bases for the british intel operation. There is a reason why MI6 is so successful, it can draw on a huge base of native population for its operatives
and as for the queen, how do we know FucKing Chuck isn’t one?
Jake your opinion doesn't match the facts. Actually since immigrants tend to be poorer, they are MORE likely to join the forces. The same way Hispanics are over represented in the US military.
I joined the now defunct Wiltshire Royal Yoemanry in 1976,. As Armoured infantry all we ever practiced was how to retreat through Europe from the Soviets. It was the atrocities of the Vietnam war that prompted me to gain some military training in readiness for the World Wide Civil War, WWIII.
It seemed inevitable with the political Left and the Right clearly all puppets of the same lowlife criminal elite, it appeared obvious to me the need for humanity to out the then Billionaire Global Crime Families along with the Treasonous politicians and bureaucrats as man's only hope evolving into a higher level of consciousness.
Since then I have watched Western Governments commit near all Terrorist crimes against humanity, with their own citizens the main targets, false flag atrocities such as 911, the Port Arthur massacre, the London Transport Bombings, the Madrid Metro Bombing, the Christchurch Mosque massacre and the Kiev massacre to name but a few, but then came the clincher, the Covid19 genocidal world Coup D'état where pretence became such a thin veneer that the contempt of the parasite caste for humanity made it plain we are playing their End Game.
If humanity does not rise on mass in defiance of these demonic low lives, hell on earth is inevitable.
More than one single thing is needed to mark the awakening of defiance against tyranny, one would be an on mass the absolute refusal of conscription with press gangs simply vanishing from the face of the Earth if they venture out into the suburbs, and around the West absolutely thousands of mock gallows being in people's front yards.
Christchurch was a fake event. And the terrorist crimes against us citizens predates the ones you mention. Don't forget Gladio ops in Eurrope in the 60ies to the 80ies.
Indeed the video taken by the supposed gunman was blatantly all done firing blanks; when the WEF terrorist Jacinda Ardern banned the video I down loaded it and there is no doubt he didn't shoot and kill anyone in the Mosque,, but there were two government terror exercises in Christchurch that very day, and there were claims terrorist links at that Mosque.
It is possible those that ran the Mosque were coerced into going along with the theatre where one or two of the extremist members of the Mosque were murdered by Arderns Globalist terrorist regime, to enable the disarming of New Zealander patriots.
I never noticed, I recall outside interveiw with Mosque leaders, and the video made by the blanks “Shooter”, or should I say “Shooters” as he appeared to be a Chameleon.
Put it this way, the Blatant treason of the "Wests", installed Governments will at some stage force rational citizens to respond with force, to the growing treasonous crimes of the globalist puppet Governments. The murderous response of globalist puppet regimes will ignite the defence of a growing wholesome freedom movement which can ultimately only be seen as worldwide civil wars.
Why would woke fools follow this page?, unless in the vain hope they might find other Shills to troll rational discussion. Go back to the BBC if you seek the support of other's with their heads up their own rear passageways.
The ones who allowed all of the immigrants are the same ones who'll (attempt to) enlist only whites in the next war; what better way to whittle down the white peasantry than to push all of their males into the meat grinder.
Most of the Brits capable of fighting are not going to fight for the WEF, Tampon-Charlie, and more "diversity".
Darkly hilarious when you think about it. That Indian import into China that ruined so many lives, has now been replicate inside Britain as a larger poison.
The Common People are now the Diverse People, with nothing in common.
Your first comment is perhaps a liitle too optimistic, the majority are by nature followers. The idea that all they were taught to believe is not true, goes against programming that started from the day they were born.
Your second and third comments suggest you may well be as pessimistic about the future as I am.
African men fought well against the European invaders, notably the Zulu but not only them. And the same is true across Asia as well. And both regions peoples fought incredibly bravely and tirelessly for the British Empire in WW2. Like the Gurkhas. Afghans and that whole area are natural warriors (If such a thing exists).
NOBODY except moronic psychopaths actually WANTS to go fight in E Europe for pointless ends, but the browner Brits will fight just as hard as any Brit whose ancestors lived there for thousands of years.
It would be in their best interest if they succeeded; if it is the English sons who join Ukraine, they will remain there, even alive, stateless after the immigrants have renamed the EU following its conquest. The same situation applies to the majority of EU countries.
The UK can repurpose their tv detection vans for forced conscription, starting with those who make harmful sm posts violating the online harms act!! They'll be avoiding certain neighborhoods of course, concentrating on taverns and fish 'n chip shops! ;)
What is it with EU leaders urging their citizens to sacrifice their children? I would be happy to sacrifice my Prime Minister and their family to the front line.
>The major story continues to be Russia’s crippling strikes on the Ukrainian energy grid
Once again -- what is the point?
The grid has been taken to the brink for three yeas now, never pushed over it.
And even if it is to be pushed over it, how is that going to help?
Putin has been under strict oligarch orders not to mobilize, and he has diligently complied with those. So Russia can turn the power off in Ukraine completely, but it is in no position to take advantage of it by quickly sweeping through the territory, because it doesn't have the forces. As the recent fiasco in Kupyansk demonstrated yet again.
It is also not going to stop the attacks on Russian territory, which have severely intensified the last week -- the average was 250 drones a day over the previous ten days, and now you see missile attack alerts repeatedly for Tula, Kaluga, Ryazan, Moscow, even as far as Penza. Which fact is completely hushed up, but you can't hush up the burning oil depots, refineries and factories all over the country.
If you want to stop those attacks, shutting the grid won't help. You need to seal the borders. Which, again, means boots on the ground, lots of them. But Putin and the oligarch traitors who control him firmly refuse to do that.
So, again, what is the point and what is this going to achieve other than freezing to death many thousands of unfortunate Russian babushkas in Odessa and Kiev?
Russian Babushkas frozen to death in Odessa, really? You mean Macron legionnaires and Starmer M15, M16 and German former East Europeans, Turkish, Polish and Bulgarian maffiosi, all turned in glacier statues.
There are lots of Russian patriots in Odessa who want nothing to do with the current Kyiv regime. As for GM's question "what will it achieve", the answer is obvious. To get the average citizen to evacuate so there are fewer human shields to contend with.
There are no russians in Odessa yet. If Russia were to think of Ukrainians as russian, than how could they kill even one? This is war , maybe civil war, but the end justifies the means, as this is existential for Russia. After a referndum ,yes Odessa is russian, with the benefits and help it requires, but not sooner, since today it is a NATO port. I think Odessa will be russian in 2027, the UAF will collapse next year.
your long wished nuclear attack will freeze many more babushkas everywhere. Whats the point you still insist in downgrading Russia avoiding to talk about the Ukranian defeats? Wouldnt you support the nazi junta in Kiev?
Do not look on these attacks on energy supply from a military perspective. First, the grid is old Soviet style; quick replacement is only found on the territory of the former USSR. Second, Europe follows this Green New Deal, meaning replacing every carbon-based energy use by electricity from wind and sun. All the grids must be rebuilt to support the electric cars, the hydrogen production, the gas heating (...). We had an accident in Kaprun, the biggest pumped storage; it will take more than one year to replace the damaged parts—and believe me, this project has the highest priority in all of Europe. You see, this is the perfect time to derail the main European project.
I understand very well why the strikes are carried out. It is not to actually destroy the grid. If that was the intention, all of Ukraine will have been under permanent blackout in January 2023 under Surovikin. Instead Surovikin was removed as the SMO commander and the strikes stopped.
They are are carried for two reasons:
1) The idiotic idea that this will force the Ukronazis to come to the table to negotiate. Which has predictably spectacularly backfired, because Ukraine is a fully disposable proxy while to the extent anyone in charge there cares about the ordinary people, sacrificing them is seen as something heroic among the fanatical Banderites. The cynical ones who are in it to make a profit simply don't care, if anything, if Putin can be blamed for a large-scale humanitarian catastrophe that is great for them. The West doesn't care at all, Ukrainians are just another variety of Russia for them, so the more of them dead, the better.
And this is, of course, all predicated on the even more idiotic idea that those people can be negotiated with and that anything but their terminal and total physical annihilation can solve the problem.
2) The more cynical ploy here is to show the Russian public that something is done about the situation while not actually doing anything meaningful. See, we are hitting them hard. Never mind that it has no military effect and that we are very careful not to hit them hard enough to actually shut the grid down.
That the energy grid strikes were going to achieve precisely zero in terms of deterrence enforcement was clear to everyone with a brain from the start.
That this is internal PR damage control from the Kremlin only emerged gradually, but it is now also quite clear.
What this did achieve though is providing a justification for NATO to start systematically destroying Russian infrastructure.
If Putin was another Western agent, like Gorbachev was, tasked with the controlled demolition of the country (but this time carried to completion), he would be doing exactly the things that he is doing and not doing the things that he is not doing.
"War is a racket" no more evident than the Ukraine-Russia -(think US) war theatre debacle. In Great Britain the illusion of Westminster suited duds ruling the country is no more.
Why would the Kremlin pursue a plan of 'forcing the Ukronazis to the table to negotiate' when it is increasingly clear that Russia will accept only Ukraine's unconditional surrender, in the environment of increasingly-frantic 'peace plans' which are thinly-disguised attempts to extract Ukraine without having to give up anything substantial? All that is required for this sort of negotiation is a Ukrainian who can read and write, considering the President is illegitimate; the guy who services the photocopier would do.
Meanwhile, Russia continues a military campaign which minimizes civilian casualties, which are by far the lowest I have ever seen in any conflict of this scale; probably why western reports routinely add the 12,000 or so who were killed in the DNR/LNR by the Ukrainian Army before the SMO even started. It does this for its own reasons, and seems unmoved by shrieks that this is weak.
1) Has it hurt transport? No -- it's not as if the AFU is short of anything on the front lines
2) There are diesel locomotives as back up
P.S. If you want to shut down the trains, you go after the locomotives. But that was off limits too for three and a half years. Then they started hitting them, but it has again been half hearted -- Russia has the means to take out every single locomotive in Ukraine within 48 hours and shut it all down completely. Yet it has been several months of intermittent strikes on depots, but trains in Ukraine still run on time.
Same shit show as the grid situation. Some strikes, but nothing that really makes a difference.
What many here are overlooking is this little sentence:
"...A key focus now is to find replacement equipment in different parts of Europe, which we can deliver to Ukraine quickly..."
That sounds just too good to be true, but knowing how idiotic these western lemmings are, it just might be. The Ukrainian war has already stripped the West, and especially Europe, of munition reserves, down to bare bone and then some; the brits gave away all their mobile artillery; tanks, missiles, even small arms munitions were expended to the point where NATO freely admits it has resources for a week's worth of high intensity conflict.
It looks like now they will start stripping themselves of transformers, generators, and powerplant spares. And the first to go will be the ones best compatible with Ukrainian systems, meaning that the former Soviet bloc countries forming the eastern bulwark of NATO are going to be razed---Poland, Romania, etc. will be destroying what infrastructural resilience they have. Europe is getting hollowed out, while Russia is hardly exerting itself. After infrastructure repair capacity, the next thing to be pointlessly expended in Ukraine will be manpower---already they are shuffling their feet, eager to feed French and Brit soldiers into the meat grinder. The entire thing plays out as a sacrificial farce.
Sealing the border crossings, as GM suggests, would be counterproductive in that context; it would amount to a tourniquet, saving Europe at the cost of letting Ukraine necrotize. It is much better in the long run to let the bleeding continue.
The British ruling class, and that includes not only the talking heads in suits and ties in Westminster but also the generals wearing the gold braid and fancy hats at HQ, have long since burned through any credibility they once had. Especially amongst the young people who they expect to line up in order to be blown to hell by katyushas and drones.
Defend Britain from the small boats crossing the channel every day, Impossible !
(because of democracy)
Defend the Donbass and Crimea from the Russians, Essential !
>The British ruling class [...] have long since burned through any credibility they once had
Which matters because Britain is famously a democracy in which decision making reflects popular sentiments as the elites deeply care about the opinion and well-being of the masses...
At the rate the Brits are imprisoning their herd members for offenses as severe as typing 'fa**ot' in a private message, apparently no one on that island has opinions worth caring about.
"The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings."
It would need to be cut off at least. The Russians have been probing for months. It is looking more and more like the push to Zaporozhye could have been one of the Russian's major goals all along. The Donbass arc is the obvious other main goal but being so heavily fortified makes it very slow progress.
Does not really matter in the new reality of drone warfare. Every village is one regardless.
How many strongholds were there in Kursk? There were some Russian fortifications right at the border, but those were bypassed quickly because there was nobody to man them. And then it took six months and the North Koreans intervening to clear the Ukro-NATO-Nazi hordes from cities and towns much deeper, where obviously there were no fortifications.
It will be the same slow grind everywhere, until Putin finds the integrity to:
1) Mobilize
2) Seal the borders and fuck what Russian oligarchs and liberals and so called "allies" in China, India, Brazil, etc. think about the methods used to do that.
- a global war, Russia needs support from China and India
- there is only one red line, nuclear war
- for the war to end Ukraine, NATO; UK, US have to be defeated
- it is preferable to have negotiated defeat that to fight to the bitter end
- that is why is Putin offering off ramps, from 2007, Minsk 1, Minsk 2, offer to NATO in 2021, Istanbul talks, 2024 summer offer, Istanbul plus...
- and intervening militarily at the same time, Georgia, Crimea, SMO
- Russia is strong, but Russia doesn't need to fight all the enemies at the same time
Why?
Look at you GM, you call yourself s Russian patriot, and you keep yelling constantly, continuosly, rabidly against Putin, against Russian army from the first day of the war...and when Putin is objectively quite successful. I can only imagine how you would behave if there were serious Russian losses, mistakes, (like for example colossal mistakes of Stalin in his fight against Hitler)
Where? The tricolor is a flag the Vlasovites flew, remember that.
>and you keep yelling constantly, continuosly, rabidly against Putin, against Russian army from the first day of the war...
Another lie -- I have consistently pointed the Russian army is not to blame here because it is shackled by Putin
>and when Putin is objectively quite successful
Putin started the war with the stated objectives of demilitarizaiton and denazification.
On both of those metrics things have gone dramatically in the opposite direction.
Was Ukraine able to launch 500 light cruise missiles a day deep into Russia back in 2022?
That is Putin being "objectively quite successful" according to you?
>Strategy GM
There is no strategy here.
This is Putin squirming and twisting trying to kick the can down the road until the West agrees to yet another shitty deal that will keep the Russian oligarchs happy while postponing the really big war for another decade. At which point it won't even be a NATO invasion of Kursk, it will be a NATO invasion directly into Omsk and Novosibirsk.
Look at where things were geostrategically when Putin took power, where they are now.
GM makes his points and sticks to his guns, you guys are like flies horse's swish away with their tales in the summertime.
I know nothing and therefore I know everything said Socrates, but, SMO- wise isen't it rather late in the day to make the citizens of Kiev freeze and go hungry?
Ah yes, I remember now, it's a war of attrition: Putin has remained level headed while those with any sense, money, position or influence have left the city long ago...
The timeline for territorial advance is not linear. At some point, the Territorial Brigades will simply disintegrate, leaving the Azov types isolated.
The Russians could be at the Dnepr very rapidly once the collapse occurs.
Russia will need electricity for their logistics moving forward. Its' good Europe loves Ukraine so much, they are going to have ten million more disgruntled nazis living with them soon.
The Russians are being kind cutting the power in winter. Cutting it in the summer means no refrigeration. Food spoils fast without refrigeration. If power is not restored with 15 hours or so, most of the food in the shops of Kiev would be spoilt. The whole population of Kiev would be starving after 72 hours if Russia cut the power in summer.
Are propane gas tanks common in Ukraine? I don´t know. Here, if the power would go out for extended period, just about everyone has 15 - 30 KGs of propane on hand for heating, cooking, and so forth.
Yes, they are common as are primus stoves and camping style stoves that run on a very wide variety of fuels. Heating comes primarily from dedicated plants, not the "co-generated" plants Kiev tells lies about.
It gets pretty cold in winter in Kharkiv & Kyiv. Even during the first winter of this war with the so-called "mild" power disruptions, I saw my friend in Kyiv freezing in their apartment, sleeping in outer clothes, inside the sleeping bags. Now, I can't even imagine...
I can imagine. I spent many winters in the Northern U.S., including one in Chicago which was akin to what the Germans and Russians experienced at Stalingrad (1.2 meters of snow, 29 C degrees below 0, 60 Km per hour winds for 3 weeks). All the heat there was gas though, and we were without power for nearly a full day because of the blizzard. Fortunately, we don´t have winters anything like that here in South America.
I'm well familiar with Stalingrad (Volgograd) winters. I'm also familiar with much colder/windier places in Russia than Stalingrad and with Toronto in winters (same as Chicago) some winters are fine, but when polar vortex - brrr
Hectic! That's unimaginable to one such as myself. On the polar opposites side, I'm used to daytime temperatures averaging 50 degrees celcius in the shade. I fought a war in those temperatures and it was as much of an enemy as the army we faced. But I cannot even begin to imagine what you described. I guess that's why vodka was invented. Pröst..
In the US you do have heat waves that kill a bunch of folks. But, the sustained cold in winter is much more of a threat. The authorities really get on edge when that happens, much more so than in weather intensifications in summer. Places such as New York and Chicago have real problems with the number of people dying in those cold surges. This is my recollection of things there back home.
Wrong, as usual. Shutting the grid down has a huge impact on the military, starting with rail transportation that depends on electricity and continuing with the web of factories creating war supplies either by new manufacture or repair. It also has a huge impact on logistics centers. There just aren't enough generators to power all the many, many power-consuming nodes, from fuel stations to barracks and back office military centers, that a war requires.
There is no reason to call the Ukrainian "disgruntled nazis". There is a very small minority that fits this description. Not the population in general.
War propaganda from either side is absurd. One should try to understand what has happened and what should be done about the future.
Yeah, like all those hundreds of thousands of people that lined the streets of cities with adulation everywhere Hitler came to visit in the Third Reich. Oh, and nobody served in the SS or actually fought in the Wehrmacht... they were all cooks and clerks.
I grow very tired of pointing out to my acquaintances that their beloved presidents before Trump (be it Obama, Reagan Clinton or virtually ANY since WWII) were all part of the foreign policies building up to the present situation.
I think it is really the fear of their incompetence exposed that is driving the European gang. After Trump jumped the boat and hanged them with major energy price increases as a parting gift they realized they are at the end of the road and are making these militaristic noises to mislead their own populations. From some speeches I judge that even Biden had serious doubts about the outcome of this conflict already early. He was just talking sometimes killing as many Russians as possible as a final goal. Recall the exchange between the two psychos: Biden to Z: Just get out of there as fast as possible. Z: I don’t need an uber ride, I need ammunition.
I also think that total darkness for Kiev will take the city down, the latest next summer if it can be kept that long. That would mean food distribution and storage, large part of the mass transportation and industry all going bye bye. There is a limit to how much those people can take.
Even here in the US, when we have power down @storms - no light, no heat, no hot water, because it's all electricity based. Luckily, it's not Kyiv/Kharkiv winters
Not any of the people actually responsible for starting the war will be in any sort of inconvenience, "they" will be all ordinary people, most of them ethnic Russians.
Meanwhile not a single precision strike has seriously hit the people responsible for starting and perpetuating the war.
GM. Mate you been advocating raining nuclear fire on the"ordinary people" for months, and now you're worrying about them being inconvenienced by the cold?
Big cities are incredibly vulnerable. You need power and lots of power to make them environments where humans can survive. Water, sewage, circulation, food distribution. If I were a kiev citizen I would have moved a long time ago.
the problem is that no one can guarantee that the genocidal loons in the EU (specifically, but not limited to britain) would not be willing to launch a fucking nuke, claiming "we saw a russian missile inbound and couldn't take a chance on it being a nuke"
there are some more loons in the US that are capable of such things
it all comes down to how desperate the loons are; they will not be the ones to suffer it it ever comes to that point, and civilizational suicide is okay for them as well.
After Nord Stream was destroyed they should have smelled the trap they were herded into. Instead, they just sleepwalked into the whole jam and sacrificed their economies.
Medvedev had several posts, increasingly direct, on that subject, saying the obvious -- the EU has stated that its goal is our destruction, are we out of our fucking minds for our official position to be that we don't mind Ukraine joining the EU?
So it's not just the "pro-Russian commentariat" that has criticized it.
Ukraine is also a member of OSCE. They are chipping in with the decolonisation as well. So what.
"Recognizes the systemic policy of violation of human and peoples’ rights in the Russian
Federation to the detriment of its indigenous peoples as colonialist and violating the basic United Nations declarations and, building on European Parliament resolution 2024/2579 of 29 February 2024 and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
resolution 2540/2024 of 17 April 2024, recognizes that decolonization of the Russian
Federation is a necessary condition for sustainable peace; "
Member of UN, many UN countries are hell bent on the destruction of Rus. On and on. Nothing new.
W goal of Rus destruction did not formalize since the SMO started, or in the last decade. It is the other way around, all of these events that we are witnessing are the result of the idea of the balkanization of Rus.
Do Russians love their children too, a song by Sting. Does Zelensky loves his Ukrainian children? British general now merchandising English and non English sons and daughters, and in France the same, Citoyens fils et fille la Patrie t’attend! but what about the German children? Of course the orphan generation of their grannies who lost their lives in…what’s the name of the place where so many got frozen to death?
The Brits ought to rise up, tar and feather the bastards saying their sons and daughters should prepare to die, then hang them by their lying throats. Heaven help the Englishmen if they swallow that propaganda swill.
Simplicius, thank you for reading the NATO political news so we don't have to. Honestly, if I wanted to read nonsense words from pedophiles, I could read Lewis Carroll or J.M. Barrie. And really, NATO's talking points have been nothing but SSDD for several years now.
Also, thank you for the tactical update, the only real news, and all that will matter in the end.
There are decent tactical updates daily on the Military Summary channel on youtube. The speculation and analysis should be taken with a pound or so of salt, but positions on the ground are usually supported by videos and informed reports.
Despite the clickbait video titles, I find Ruslan Belov to be less annoying. Dima often pushes CIPsO talking points and his inane prattle is just too much. Belov is unapologetically pro Russian, but also willing to dispute premature reports of gains from the RF MOD, has his own frontline sources which are often more accurate.
Fair points. I'm able to ignore his prattle, and dislike the voice Belov uses more. Although it's true I've been having to skip past his struggles to read English text, so I've restored my ruslanbelov86 tab on your recommendation.
Belov is good, but Weeb Union is my main channel. Dima gets ahead of himself, and I find his accent difficult at times, probably due to my hearing; he often uses clickbait tactics.
Having just watched the latest Belov video, I was remembering how it seems to be an AI version of Dima's military summary presentation. The AI voice moved on to talking about (I think) the Pokrovsk area, while still showing Dima's map focused in the south. And the info text boxes were all labeled 'Military Summary'.
Weeb Union sounds so depressed. Seems like I'm 'overly' sensitive to audio, so even though Dima stumbles through English and wanders off into speculation, he's probably going to remain my main source. History Legends has a great voice, and it's too bad he doesn't do daily tactical updates.
Have watched 5 or 6 other update channels too, but for all his faults, Dima still hits the best time and info quality for my preferences. He does spend too much time reading those text boxes, so I skip over those.
The RuAf needs to clear the whole donbass. The negotiations are a farce, a retarded theatre of the absurd. They are only reinforcing the belief of massive Ru casualties by going along with it. I know everyone will jump in and shriek that this is all part of the plan, but if thats the case then this is a bad plan
The negotiations began on the second day of the conflict when casualty numbers were obviously very low. Why do you believe casualties are relevant to negotiations? I thought the Russians were negotiating to achieve their states goals, what's to lose. So far they have been excellent for the Russians. One just needs to look at the amount of support provided by the US since Trump took office. It's down to $0. Ukraine is in real trouble financially and the EU is struggling to steal the frozen funds.
The maximalist EU position is underpinned by the belief, conviction even, that russia has taken horrific casualties and that is on the verge of exhaustion. If they actually knew the real situation (or, we are wrong), their stance would be clearly insane
So thats what it boils down to. Either they are nuts, or the alt-media space (here, ppl like us) are wrong.
We have a pathetic leadership in russia that has been playing second fiddle for four years and doesn't even intend to take down its main adversary, the chimney sweeps..
Putin: 'Ukraine is our brothers and sisters'. What a loser.
Read the comments on topwar.ru with translate for strong concerns about the efficacy of military leaders.
>We probably need to fight (that's right, "FIGHT," not conduct a lazy military-police operation!) to prevent this from happening in principle. It feels like we're avoiding serious trouble for now, not THANKS to (someone's efforts), but DESPITE (someone's INACTION). The icon/cross is probably hanging somewhere, dangling on a chain, saving us for now. For now...
Gallup (the polling outfit used by major companies and governments) has Putin pegged at an 87 percent approved rating. The remaining 13 percent says he's way too soft. True story.
>So what else could we expect when neither the army nor industry were prepared for war? And the state apparatus, including its military component, was almost fatally ravaged by corruption and enemy agents.
Translated from Russian on a 'smallish' Russian site with a lot of military veterans. Around half of them have been on the site for more than 10 years. There is some disgruntlement with the way things are going.
For me as a California-American, I find it hard to explain why Russian leadership has chosen such a grind-fest, rather than doing the needful. The only positive result I can see is the disruption of the NATO alliance and the EU, but at great cost to the Russian people. I can only guess there are hidden intentions and purposes behind this realignment of the world order.
I concur and attest to the fact that there is always disgruntlement in the ranks, even in the best of times, for many reasons. We too questioned many decisions, for various reasons; the sanity of our seniors high on the top twenty list. What I also can say is that there are literally thousands of people paid a wage to assume identities (online is very very easy) for years, in order to gather intel or spread discord (paging GM 😉) but of course the average bloke won't cotton on to the traps. Nor do they have to. But it may surprise you to know how valuable seemingly innocent information can be. Wife's speak of deployments, times, places, names, numbers dead or wounded or missing, even the weather etc. Anything can be valuable, and it often is. But as things go, we believe what we want to, or rather, what suits us. The grind fest favours Russia. Near infinite recources, a solid industrial base, people, home ground and a near infinite supply of troops, be it their own or Chinese and North Koreans. A war of attrition doesn't favour NATOstan. And it's bleeding out the west's piggy bank. Russia could have finished Ukraine, or NATO, within a few days. But the world would end as we know it. And that's exactly what the zionist scum want, to rule over the ashes. Just my two cents.
Better start the war after a Liverpool or Manchester United loss then, because that´s the only time that the ¨sons and daughters¨ of England are ready and drunk enough to fight anyone.
Organize the English football thugs, post loss, load them onto busses and drive them to Kiev, stopping only for Bangers, beer and the loo. Monty Python drafted to write the battle plans. Reporters from The Onion to do war reportage. The West is safe for another 45 minutes. Small price to pay to keep civilization on track.
Yep. They're so noticeable in Europe too that even Trump's son mentioned them. He was speaking at some conference and talked about how he and his wife had just been in Monaco and literally half of the hyper-expensive supercars he saw in Monaco had Ukrainian plates. He went on to ask how a country with zero industry that has always been one of the poorest in Europe and for years has depended on handouts from the West could generate as many super rich people as all of the rest of Europe and the UK put together.
that's a funny anecdote! but really, that question alone (zero industry, poorest in Europe, depended on handouts) says a lot about Trump's son. it illustrates his provincial outlook, an incompetence to look behind the façade, not seeing the fraud, the corruption (Kolomoisky, anyone?), black market racketeering, and no awareness about the Ukr mob families.
Russian air defense systems shot down 545 (!!!) Ukrainian long-range kamikaze drones of the aircraft type in a single day, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
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4 YEARS ANNIVERSARY.... and the shit show goes on, hence
Putin is an incompetent and very cowardly leader that needs to be removed ASAP.
Cowardice in decision-making leads to such consequences.
Groundhog day doesn't even begin to describe the insanity of this complete disaster of an SMO, and genocide of your neighbour.
Putin is so incompetent that the EU is modelling itself to a Russian Gulag, POW and other willing offensive EU nations, are one moment to another awakening into a Siberian camp, splendid. Trump is right EU is on its deathbed.
>Air defense systems shot down a Grom-2 operational-tactical missile, 17 rockets from the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, and 545 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
It was 545 drones, plus at least three HIMARS salvos (assuming they shot down 17/18, but it could have been four salvos and they shot down only 17/24), and a Grom-2 missile, which Ukraine should not able to be producing at all.
This is the situation after four years of "demilitarization".
Remarkable success.
But make sure nobody will be allowed to ask Putin that question in a few days when he has his annual vanity boosting four-hour event.
P.S. Russia was supposed to be launching over a thousand Gerans a day by this point. But it isn't, the opposite is happening in fact and the intensity of strikes has gown down significantly. So the way things are going we will have moved from a disparity measured in two orders of magnitude in favor of Russia to rough parity not too far in the future (not that it has made a huge difference at the front anyway -- the AFU have plenty of everything). Because you have Russian industrial capacity (a country of 150M) versus the industrial capacity of a billion and a half people, the borders are still not sealed to this day, and the nuclear doctrine that Putin himself very publicly revised is completely ignored.
There is no air defense conceivable with current technology that can eliminate all damage when the salvos get to that size.
"But make sure nobody will be allowed to ask Putin that question in a few days when he has his annual vanity boosting four-hour event."
Pure bullshit from the local troll and tireless font of propaganda for morons. Anybody who is not the village idiot can look up the transcripts of Putin's annual report to the nation and call-in marathon and can see that it frequently features highly unflattering questions. Putin answers all of them.
By the way, the industrial capacity of the billion and a half people you cite (which appears to be what you think is the US alliance population) is near zero, because all the industry has moved to China. Russia has a far higher proportion of actual industry per capita than either the US or any US stooge. It also has far better access to the giant source of real industrial capacity, China, because a) Russia and China are friends and b) Russia and China share a direct border, and c) industrial capacity is all about having cheap energy and Russia / China have energy and the US and its stooges do not.
>By the way, the industrial capacity of the billion and a half people you cite (which appears to be what you think is the US alliance population) is near zero, because all the industry has moved to China.
It's over 40M for the combined West versus 1M for Russia. That's 100,000 per day versus 2,500.
Yeah, if China was to shut down exports it would be zero in the West very quickly. But guess what? China is not shutting down exports, so in practice it is 40:1.
Which means that in the not too distant future those 500 drones will be 5,000, and then even more.
Because the production complexity of a long-range drone is lower than that of a car.
And then it won't be 5-6 objects burning somewhere in Russia every day, it will be hundreds.
Unless the border is sealed and Ukraine is eliminated as a launch platform.
"It's over 40M for the combined West versus 1M for Russia."
That's propaganda for morons, depending on the audience being so badly informed they don't know, as everybody with an IQ over 40 who knows the car market knows, that the majority of vehicles "produced" in the West are really made in China or other countries. Only a minority, and a small minority at that, of the content is actually made in what has become a de-industrialized West.
Setting aside obvious cases like Volkswagen group for decades having moved vehicle assembly to Africa and Asia, automobile production within Western countries primarily consists of assembly of parts made elsewhere. Even in the case of major assemblies "made" within Western countries such as engines and transmissions, those also depend upon sub-assemblies made elsewhere.
And for parts like steel stampings of body panels, traditionally still done in the West, those depend upon steel coming from other countries. Russia, for example, is one of the world's largest exporters of steel for car parts, including car panels. The stamping of steel sheet imported from other countries is not remotely as "industrial" a process as the creating of that steel and rolling it out into sheet.
As for the 1M vehicles produced in Russia annually, they're a minority part of the automobile market in Russia with well over 60% of it consisting of ultramodern supercars made in China. That makes sense for Russia given the shared border and very close relationships with China.
So if you quote only nominal country-of-origin for the holding company that oversees the worldwide production of brands it holds, you get a highly skewed view, as perhaps you intended given your habit of spouting propaganda for morons, of how car production relates to industrialization. It's not good news for the West, and that's in a sector where classically the US and its stooges are thought to have the least deindustrialization.
For intelligent, informed people, your citation of automobile production instead of being an example where deindustrialization is not occurring on the contrary is a classic example of how the US and its stooges have been deindustrialized: it's an industry that appears on the surface to still look strong and local when in fact it's already well beyond the point of no return to being hollowed out.
If you look at all the other industries that have fled the corrupt West, they've tended to follow a similar pattern. At first the huge multinationals that account for really big industries realize they're screwing themselves by keeping production in the foul West, so they start diversifying by moving production abroad. They often start with parts plants to manufacture parts overseas, either their own or contractors.
Over time, their plants in the host Western country switch from being actual producers to assemblers of parts made in foreign countries. They also discover that building their product in foreign countries, both producing and assembling overseas, results in a higher quality product, so they move more and more factories, including their assembly factories, overseas.
That's where the Western car sector is today. It's already hollowed out because most of the content in their cars is made outside the West, and they're well down the path of moving everything they can outside the West. They've already lost the key industries on which large scale automobile production depends.
>as everybody with an IQ over 40 who knows the car market knows, that the majority of vehicles "produced" in the West are really made in China or other countries.
No they are not. Those produced in China by Western companies are listed under Chinese production.
>Volkswagen group for decades having moved vehicle assembly to Africa and Asia
Yes, and it is counted under those countries' production numbers. Are you a fucking imbecile?
Mexico is listed as producing 4.2M cars a year. Which giant Mexican car company is doing that? Thailand is listed at 1.5M, Slovakia at 1M, etc.
Ah, no, you read "the majority of vehicles" to mean entire vehicles, missing the full meaning of phrase, that also means the majority of the *content* of vehicles. That's the point, that the great majority of vehicles that nitwits like you claim are produced in the West are really produced in China as parts with those parts being imported into the West and then assembled there.
Western dishonesty and intellectual corruption allows those Western producers to claim those vehicles were made in Germany or whatever without telling the truth that really, they were only assembled there with most of their components having been made in China.
The point, which you seem intent to hide because it exposes the lie you told by quoting auto statistics as indicating there isn't deindustrialization going on in the West, is that the majority of vehicles (that includes the *content* of those vehicles, which is what counts for industrialization) in the West is no longer made in the West. Whether it is a West that assembles vehicles out of parts mostly made in China or a West that doesn't even assemble vehicles any more but makes them in Mexico, the point is still that those industrial processes are no longer in the West. They've moved to China and other parts of the world outside the West.
John, you fell for his cherry picking trick. Of course he chose civilian cars production indicator, out of all of the possible industrial indicators. One of the weakest for Russia, relatively. Developing it into some nebulous explanation showing us that Russia is doomed.
Well, the conversation was about de-industrialization in the West relative to China. Russia has nothing to do with that. I suppose he picked that as a head fake for the weak minded, to change the subject away from the de-industrialization of the West.
But in his choice of a head fake he feinted his head into a brick wall, the reality that even if you choose something so superficially complimentary to the West, when you look closely it's not at all complimentary to the West. The reality of car production in the West is that it's assembly, not production, of parts that for the most part are made outside of the West.
It reminds me of a visit I made to a friend nearly 20 years ago, a man who was a successful Harley Davidson dealer in the US. My friend was a committed US patriot. He took great pride in selling motorcycles that were "made in USA" and were part of a core American mythology.
I've never personally been a big fan of Harleys. I'm one of those guys who was deeply unimpressed by the Briggs and Stratton (a lawnmower engine manufacturer, if you don't live in the US...) level of technology that characterized a Harley.
But at the same time I have to admit that hammering down an onramp onto an interstate highway on a Harley-based chopper is one of life's truly memorable experiences, at least if you are a real American guy. Heck, it's probably one of life's most memorable experiences if you're an American woman as well.
Be that as it may, my friend the Harley dealer, a guy much older than me, was hanging it up. I couldn't understand why he was giving up on a business that seemed to be doing fine. I asked him and he walked me back to his parts department, where it seemed about 90% of the parts that go into a Harley were marked "made in China."
For a true American patriot he just couldn't stand the psychological and moral friction of what had been a truly epic hard iron brand becoming basically a clothing and marketing thing with the bikes being a second tier priority that were mostly manufactured in China.
I get that. These days if you want a hard core Harley experience you do that riding on one of the Harley engine clones made by some true devotees in Arizona or Illinois or whatever, bolted to a custom frame for some righteous cruising down the highway. I've had the honor to ride a few of those and that I'll remember for the rest of my life, not the times I've spent rolling out of some prissy Briggs and Stratton, China-made clothing showroom that had a few shitty quality, overpriced motorcycles as accessories.
"Russia has a far higher proportion of actual industry per capita than either the US or any US stooge."
Game set and match. The Americans surrendered their industrial capacity decades ago. Mo' money...mo' money...mo' money. We've gotten so stupid here that we imagine we can fight more than safari wars sans industrial might. Along with this train wreck we have fools like Slow-Joe and 24hr-Don steering the ship of state, right off the nearest cliff. Makes my head hurt to think about it.
Ibsen's play, An Enemy of the People, anticipates the overdue decline and final nail in the coffin of the Western game plan. All the lies and bloody interventions the Americans have offloaded on the world are finally being exposed in the bright light of day. Rules based blah-blah, democracy this, democracy that. "Christian values"! Oh sure, the values of stealing everything that's not nailed down. The criminal, mediocre leadership.
The Vietnamese, Chinese, and the Russians et al are calling out the fiction that the West offers the world, "healing waters". They are the "Dr. Stockmans, demonstrating that the whole narrative is a cover-up, a long-in-the-tooth lie. The Biden and Trump frauds...the Fond-of-Lyins and the blonde 7th grade, disco queen from sad Estonia are the representatives of the end stage of the corrupted waters bidness the West has been peddling-for ever. The piracy...the theft of Russian monies is the denouement. The END. The world and what matters moves on...moves EAST.
An enemy of the people
Play by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People is an 1882 play by Henrik Ibsen about Dr. Thomas Stockmann, who discovers the water in his town's new public baths is contaminated, threatening public health and the local economy. When he tries to expose the truth, the community, led by his own brother, turns against him, branding him an "enemy of the people" for threatening their financial interests, exploring themes of integrity, public opinion, and corruption.
Putin is likely less incompetent and more beholding to his oligarchs. It's a shitshow of a SMO, even if dragging it out like this is causing EU leader puppets to lose their minds.
"Except that the attacks on Russia’s oil and gas have dwindled of late and do not seem to be causing any even remote consternation to Russia’s thriving energy sector"
"Strikes on Russia have dramatically ramped up the last ten days"
Strikes on Russia remain totally irrelevant, nuisance attacks that have zero strategic relevance.
They do have some slight tactical relevance in that they are causing an increase in Russia's wealth as a result of construction being done on defenses against tiny, strategically irrelevant drones.
For example, if you drive on the various beltways around Moscow a new thing that's popped up in the last year are ten story tall towers with a Pantsir anti-air unit sitting on top. The height gives it better radius of action against very low-flying drones.
They're very well made tower, basically open structure reinforced concrete towers without filler in the walls, and those provided employment and revenue for lots of people and companies. That revenue in turn goes back into the economy for new cars, gadgets, appliances, refurb to second homes and all that stuff.
>For example, if you drive on the various beltways around Moscow a new thing that's popped up in the last year are ten story tall towers with a Pantsir anti-air unit sitting on top.
That's not something to brag about, that is a testament to Putin's utter failure as a Russian leader, not a success.
Only deterrence does that. Or physically eliminating your immediately bordering enemies and pushing the source of threat to a safe distance.
But if you have completely destroyed your deterrence, well, then you have completely destroyed your country's security. And if you refuse to physically eliminate the source of the threat, then you end up like Syria. Which is what Russia has been reduced to thanks to Putin's wise leadership.
Let me get this straight... you really think people reading this sub are so intensely stupid that they don't know there is no difference between Syria and a Russia with 5000+ nukes and a conventional military that is crushing the US and its stooges in Ukraine, and could easily wipe out all of the toy NATO "armies" in Europe?
Russia is a fabulous first world country with truly outstanding quality of life that has the world's fourth largest *real* economy. It's not a failed state like Syria.
In point of fact, good air defense does make you secure, as Russia's air defense makes Russia secure.
"That's not something to brag about, that is a testament to Putin's utter failure as a Russian leader, not a success."
That's propaganda for morons who don't know anything at all about the war between Russia and the US and its stooges.
In point of fact, Russia's outstanding air defense is a key part of Russia's ability to turn the US's European stooges into Gaza-like ruins without even needing to use nuclear weapons.
That air defense is part of Russia having the most combat ready military on the planet. Unlike the idiotic "armies" of the US's European stooges, Russia's military is a both offense and defensive juggernaut, with outstanding combat skills that have been honed through real-life experience.
Putin told the truth when he said that if the Europeans start a war against Russia, Russia is ready to fight that war today. Outstanding air defense around Russia's cities is part of that readiness to fight that war today. There is nothing remote similar around Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, or London, all of which are easy targets.
Heck, for that matter, there isn't anything similar around the key military airports the US and its stooges use in Poland, German, Romania and the Baltics.
A good example of how the US and its stooges are so totally incompetent and unready for a war with Russia are the "air defenses" around Rzeszów-Jasionka airport in Poland, which is the huge hub (runways extended to handle giant US C-5 air freighters) for almost all US and Euro military equipment sent to Kiev.
The US and its stooges are proud of ringing that airport with dozens of Patriot launchers, giving it perhaps the highest density of Patriot systems of any single airport on the planet. But even someone so intensely stupid as to think that the Patriot system has any chance against Russian hypersonics knows that those Patriots are completely useless against low level saturation drone attacks that start by taking out the Patriots.
To deal with such attacks you need what Russia does, the Pantsirs (and similar) on towers thing, and those have to be integrated, as Russia does, within a very sophisticated command and control system that integrates very wide area sensing, AI optimization, and point defenses. There isn't any of that at Rzeszów-Jasionka. That place will be a smoking ruin in the opening minutes of any real war, along with Ramstein in Germany and the other US/stooge military hubs in Europe.
>Russia's outstanding air defense is a key part of Russia's ability to turn the US's European stooges into Gaza-like ruins without even needing to use nuclear weapons.
This is the last time I bother replying to your idiocy.
How is air defense going to strike Europe, and how are conventional strikes going to turn Europe into Gaza?
Gaza itself had the equivalent of 10-15 Hiroshima-sized nukes dropped on it. On that tiny territory. How many medium-range cruise and ballistic missiles do you think Russia has and how much damage will they do? Very little.
The INF treaty made sure about that. And if you had the education and didn't have the brainwashing to see how the long-term strategy is playing out here (defanging Russia with the INF treat was one key component of it), you would see how dire the situation is.
No serious modern war can be fought without nukes.
>But even someone so intensely stupid as to think that the Patriot system has any chance against Russian hypersonics
Nobody cares, because the bet is that Putin is too compromised to do anything and will never strike, thus the fancy superweapons will just collect dust in warehouses until one day the NATO missiles blow them up there.
Slowly then suddenly.
First a drip, then a trickle, and then the dam breaks.
Well you got the slowly part right
Just heard how Putin has turned Trump’s Dark Wind into a stain in Donnie’s trousers, Yeah it stinks.
https://johndahl44.substack.com/p/dark-wind-or-wet-gas
I wish the UK plenty of luck mobilizing the sons and daughters of millions of African and South Asian immigrants that they took in. Somehow I don't think that it'll be a one to one replacement of the old English-heritage troops
IMO, it won't happen. Perfidious Albion has no logistics to project force into Eastern Europe. The Kursk debacle, reportedly led by a British officer who committed suicide recently, was their best shot. And even at the Empire's peak, they didn't fare very well at the 1855 Battle of Balaclava either.
The Charge of the No Lights Brigade.
Or, alternatively, the No Lights Brigands.
Nayton: “The situation is more dangerous than I have ever known in my career....” < says all about his career.
“I am such a soft-assed cream puff, that the mere thought of actual combat operations causes me to soil myself”. FIFY
You win the internet….at least for a few minutes!
Even back then, the Russians had deactivated the power plants?
"German Chancellor Merz proposed to Russia to declare a Christmas truce"
Putin responds by pointing out that Germany and Ukraine are not Christian and have even banned its practice.
As Mearsheimer said recently, Brits handed the keys to US after WW2 due to imperialist fatigue. They won’t do anything.
do to not taking any of Uncle A's numerous peace offers that would have allowed the brits to keep their empire....
read - What the World Rejected: Hitler’s Peace Offers 1933–1940
Empire never went away, using the US as a proxy.
What? The U.S. and uk are the proxy of the Jew.
Hi mentally challenged person. What did you do while waiting for this new article? Did you celebrate Hanukkah?
Treaties galore with cutie pie Natsis, Christmas like peace all over the place in Europe ;)
Four-Power Pact - Italy, Germany, Britain, France (15 June 1933)
German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact (26 January 1934)
German-Lithuanian Memorandum (20 March 1935)
Anglo-German Naval Agreement (18 June 1935)
Austro-German Agreement (11 July 1936)
Anti-Comintern Pact (25 November 1936)
Italy Joins the Anti-Comintern Pact (6 November 1937)
German-Latvian and German-Estonian Non-Aggression Declarations (1937)
Munich Agreement - Germany, Italy, Britain, France.
German-Czechoslovak Agreement (20 November 1938)
German-Lithuanian Treaty (20 March 1939)
German-Romanian Economic Treaty (23 March 1939)
Pact of Steel (22 May 1939)
German-Danish Non-Aggression Pact (31 May 1939)
German-Estonian and German-Latvian Non-Aggression Pacts (7 June 1939)
All three world wars were long planned, cancellation is soley for those that oppose them
British and US establishments are closely intertwined, they're basically one and the same
substack.com/@beeley/note/p-164625270
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Simply speaking, Brits are the wicked brain (Intelligence services/spy networks - colonial legacy) and the slush fund, and the U.S. is the brawn of the Global (Imperialist) Oligarchy.
youtube.com/watch?v=KaooeJzsRU8
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MI6 is part of "Five eyes".
Britain exerts influence through partial ownership of the FED. City of London is the headquarter of the global banking cartel. Besides, City of London basically runs all the main offshore funds.
AND It still runs Israel through the Pilgrim Society, Privy Council, RIAA, etc.
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CFR in the US and Chatham House in the UK. They are one and the same entity
True! (I came to the same conclusion via different sources.)
Look up "Comprador bourgeoisie"
"It's a big club".. (c)
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Due to the "globalism", we now have INTERNATIONAL FASCISM (IMPERIALISM), instead of a national fascism (NAZISM), an unholy alliance b/w ONE big UNIPARTY government (like EU/UK/US) and big TRANSNATIONAL Corporations' Oligarchs, to establish Global monopoly/dominance.
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Global capitalism (Imperialism) and twenty-first century fascism: a US case study:
robinson.faculty.soc.ucsb.edu/Assets/pdf/raceandclass.pdf
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For globalist Oligarchs (IMPERIALISTS), the very notion of "National state" is obsolete.
youtu.be/pCfMbBwdVDQ?t=422
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They do not hold allegiance to any single nation-state. Their only allegiance is to their Assets/Capital.
The Globalist/Imperialist Financial Oligarchy is primarily invested in the US Stock market, so they care bout their stocks, not "their" people.
In that sense, any POTUS cares about Americans as little as he does about Germans. Or Ukrainians for that matter. "Basket of deplorables", as fascist Clinton called the people.
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And some of the most stupid globalist shills openly admit it:
youtube.com/shorts/rjUBxbzeKbA
youtube.com/shorts/jAm8cSBtA9o
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Nations may still have the decorative elements of a State like flag, anthem and national soccer team, but the fundamentals like Financial, Economic and Politic systems are controlled by the globalists' establishment. So it's just a husk of a State, actually.
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"The U.S. did not defeat Fascism in WW2, It discretely Internationalized It"
-Gabriel Rockhill
substack.com/@gabrielrockhill
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"Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws"
-The House of Rothschilds
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National elites are no more. National leaders are no more. Just the globalists' puppets
Eloquent, PLUS receipts (sources) +1
As UK PM Tony Blair famously declared in his "Chicago speech" in support of Iraq war in 1999:
"The most pressing foreign policy problem we face is to identify the circumstances in which we should get actively involved in other people’s conflicts"
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BTW Tony Blair was Obama's political mentor
Where is the Catholic Church to excommunicate the major war criminal Tony the Pious?
"former British Prime Minister Tony Blair converted to Roman Catholicism six months after leaving office. While serving as Prime Ministe, Blair was a member of the Church of England but regularly attended Mass with his wife, Cherie, and their children, who were all practicing Catholics. Blair has described his faith as a "living and growing belief" and "hugely important" to him.
Tony is a prominent war profiteer, along with his pious wife Cherie.
A cherry on the tope: "In July 2025, reports alleged that Tony Blair's staff participated in discussions about plans for postwar Gaza governance that favored corporate interests over Palestinian needs."
The Blair creature is most probably the single most perverse criminal of a continuing long line of criminals that have made No10 Downing Street a whore house.
I assume the Jesuit head of the Catholic Church of Satan is Blair's bad faith, the irony of Satans seat carried on the shoulders of millions of true Christians, would surely inspire Blair's bent for betrayal, as he passes through the chior boys.
Every religion has been weaponized by Imperialism.
Brits did it in India to put Hindus against Muslims (Pakistan), and even Muslims against each other (Sunni vs Shia), they also created the ethno-supremacist ideology called Zionism and founded their colony called Israel to put Jews against Arabs.
youtu.be/wtwwk5cuOvU?t=332
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"Divide (by religion, race, age, gender, party etc.), Distract (by "Culture wars") and Conquer"
-The Imperialist deep state's strategy in a nutshell
there is a special layer of hell reserved for murderous lying hypocrits like Tony Blair
1999 was the year of bombing Yugoslavia under the pretext “humanitarian assistance “ to Kosovar terrorist insurgence. Invention of slogan RTP (right to protect) is coming directly from British perfidy Albion's political kitchen to save the NATO purpose after the fall of Soviet Union .Their problem “ … to identify the circumstances in which we should get actively involved in other people’s conflicts" was resolved by invention of fake humanitarian pretext .
U.S. NED Coup in Serbia
youtube.com/watch?v=HGaqIPhCtY0
Exactly.
In 1999 NATO bombed Yugoslavia, including civilians, without UN sanction.
They even coined the special term for that - "Balkanization":
youtu.be/HGaqIPhCtY0?t=134
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In order to understand what kind of people run NATO, read this story about bombing a passenger train, and how General Wesley Clark, who was the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, showed the video of the bombing at the press conference, claiming that "the train had been traveling too fast and the bomb was too close to the target for it to divert in time". After, The Pentagon and NATO stated that it was an error caused by the result of the video being sped up for "battle damage assessment" purposes, but not being slowed again for the press conference…:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grdelica_train_bombing
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In 2004 war criminal Wesley Clark ran for president of the USA..
youtube.com/shorts/TmHH7n-BK5U
No R2P for the palestinians. Obviously.
The russian SMO can be categorised as R2P IMO.
I believe it was Thatcher that was fond of using the TINA
turn of phrase: "There Is No Alternative."
So all they now do is MonkeyWrenching….got it. It’d be a shame if all those migrants from MENA began to do the same…..oh wait….
They do terrorism. Hence the Nazi at MI6
An oldschool example of a british terrorist: Orde Wingate.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/75-years-after-his-death-why-orde-wingate-remains-a-hero-in-israel/
except they ARE still doing the things they excel at:
propaganda
sabotage
false flags
don't underestimate the brits, they have overthrown many governments and started many revolutions
very violent lot abroad.
Its the mix of beer and gin with a dash of tonic. If ever I was charged with raising a mercenary army I'd head to the South of England, it's not the fish and chips after a night on the beer that makes them so aggressive, it's the chips on their shoulders.
I'd try the North East or Cumbria. Or the Valleys, or West of Scotland. Or Northern Ireland.
Basically any where when you look at it.
The Brits just hit a Russian submarine at port and blew it up. Russia doesn't scare anybody. The Brit elites don't care about dead Ukrainians. They are not deterring the Brits, but encouraging them by their weak response. Hit the elites, the communication lines of government.
Linx or it dint’happin!
hear, hear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyAfyNRJ0DI
Of course, Monty Python's peremoga- It's just a flesh wound...
The submarine is intact, of course.
Who blew up your ass?
The point is, Russia is not fighting Ukraine, it is fighting Britain, and Starmer, Macron, and Metz think war with Russia is the only way to survive.
Perfidious Albion failing at what they are best at, namely terrorism.
"High-quality satellite imagery from Novorossiysk Naval Base shows that the Ukrainian underwater drone missed the Varshavyanka-class Submarine, detonating against the pier. Any damage to the vessel is likely minimal."
https://t.me/AMK_Mapping/20769
British and US establishments are closely intertwined, they're basically one and the same
substack.com/@beeley/note/p-164625270
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Simply speaking, Brits are the wicked brain (Intelligence services/spy networks - colonial legacy) and the slush fund, and the U.S. is the brawn of the Global (Imperialist) Oligarchy.
youtube.com/watch?v=KaooeJzsRU8
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CFR in the US and Chatham House in the UK. They are one and the same entity
BTW Tony Blair was Obama's political mentor
The Brit elites don't care about dead Brits either.
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"When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die."
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings."
-Lyndon LaRouche
Even if they wanted to . They are a broken country.
Another user of phrase Perfidious Albion. Been using it for Decades. Do not remember where first saw it used, alas
First appeared in medieval French literature and later was popularised by Napoleon
He would know, better than most, maybe. They come by the term honestly. I had a limey boss once, he cheated to win a work Outing prize at a sports bar restaurant. I said to him of course Perfidious Albion, is what you twits are best known for.
I bet you really hurt his feelings Mark, what with you being so witty and all.
😂
"Les Anglois couards" in medieval French!
try the French Revolution
thomas Jefferson was american ambassador to France at the time, he said the whole thing was a creation of the brits
Maybe Ukrainians helped him to commit suicide?
If I have the same dude in mind, then he lost his leg and eventually boinked himself back in UK.
I knew Kursk was most likely British idea, same as Bucha, I just didn't think it was a Brit actually "leading" this invasion in Kursk. Brits usually like to make someone else to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for them.
I don't know what "lead" means here, but I have seen videos from a camera of a dead Anglophoni participating in the Belgorod incursion. Owner of the camera gets boinked by an artillery strike, but in the video they talk about an American commander that was killed during the operation. "Amerikanets pogib"
Here:
https://vk.com/video-221265170_456370161?ysclid=mj88v2rn48823742985
And the gopro camera is supposedly from that dude at the beginning of the video. Later he is trashed by a double tap from the artillery.
Ouch
Is this so, he ended his life? I wonder what has happened to the MI6 officers caught by the Russians? Where are they now?
Bears need sex too.
Sitting in a Gulag for the next 30 years last I heard.
This was a story on one of the Russian Telegram channels a few weeks ago, to be taken with a measure of salt. However, these unofficial sources are still more often proven true than the western Mockingbird media. The British have never admitted being in charge of anything in 404, much less Kursk. But, several sources in the Russian govt have said otherwise, many times. Zelensky and his generals are just there to take the blame.
We are up to our stupid necks in it, Cheryl.
Right back to Johnson telling Zelensky not to ratify the Istanbul Agreement in 2022.
Everything aimed at Crimea will be down to us, because we are obsessed with naval power and James Bond nonsense.
Boris the clown with his £1 M payment from some MIC drone manufacturer. Utter scum & a traitor to his own country.
Martin 100%.
It is trade routes. If they had Crimea they could bottle up Russia on the east coast and deny them access out of the black sea. This weakens Russian trade opportunities and easy ship access to the med, the ME, and North Africa. This brings Russia to its knees... or so they hoped
true, trade routes. it's why the US will eventually go after Iran, trying to control the pivot that is the ME. however, to get started they first need to secure alternative sources for access to oil, hence Venezuela.
If the Brits and others were not on the ground, Ukraine would have been swept away long ago in my view.., Remember Biden letting the truth out while addressing a group of American troops I guess in Germany, stating that they'd soon be in Ukraine for some mission?
LOL, yeah sure keep believing that nonsense. It has been NATO leading which has led to 1.7 million casualties . At least the Ukrainians (which are just brainwashed Russians) have the balls to fight and not run and hide and attack civilians like the Brits and Navy SEALS
I agree jsarnack. There may be hundreds of Western troops in Ukraine, but not more. I don't know about Poles though.
The Ukrainians are holding out because they are very brave soldiers. Let's not deny that.
Oh, the Brit who led it committed suicide? When and where did you read that? Very interesting.
he is just a metaphor for the UK at large
A handful of untrained Boer militia ripped the crown a new arsehole so bad that the UK queen bee had to literally pull off a genocide on the tiny Boer nation to bring them to their knees. The crown suffered so many losses in such a short space of time that it had to pull troops from other garrisons to die on the South African fields, which in turn destabilised the balance of power in the colonies from where they were drawn from. So yes, I don't have much faith in the historic fighting abilities of the British army troops. Gangsters and thugs in uniform at best. The Brits are now under the spell of The Boer Curse. Karma is a cold bitch.
Churchill was there, lending a hand or some such nonsense. got away, got in debt and sold us out into fighting WW2. and we have to believe that "the rest is history", but it isn't.
first use of concentration camps ( a british innovation ) as a means of starving women and children to bring in the boer fighters to where they could eventually be defeated
blockades and starvation have always been a favored british tactic
none of that "stiff upper lip" and "fair fighting" for the brits, sir!
Technically the US used concentration camps in the Philippines before that.
Even more technically, Spain used "re concentration camps" during the first Cuban revolution which ended with the Spanish-American war; These camps were in operation from 1896-1898.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconcentration_policy
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"In 1896, General Weyler of Spain implemented the first wave of the Spanish "Reconcentracion Policy" that sent thousands of Cubans into concentration camps. Under Weyler's policy, the rural population had eight days to move into designated camps located in fortified towns; any person who failed to obey was shot. The housing in these areas was typically abandoned, decaying, roofless, and virtually uninhabitable. Food was scarce and famine and disease quickly swept through the camps. By 1898, one third of Cuba's population had been forcibly sent into the concentration camps. Over 400,000 Cubans died as a result of the Spanish Reconcentration"
I didn't know that! Interesting, if horrifying.
Thanks Billy. 👍👍👍
at least not abroad (ask Ghandi).
Yup. It worked.
"A handful of untrained Boer militia ripped the crown a new arsehole so bad that the UK queen bee had to literally pull off a genocide on the tiny Boer nation to bring them to their knees."
It worked.
Well, the British, French, Turks, Germans, Poles, Swiss, Piedmontese and Italians did take Sebastopol from the Russian and Greek defenders in the end, but at considerable cost and after one hell of a struggle.
The Germans and Western Ukrainians pushed Russia out in WW1 too. The Nazis and Western Ukrainians (or do I repeat myself) did it again in WW2. As a funny side note when Germany got in trouble in WW1 they left Crimea to shore up the Western front. The French snuck in and occupied it. The Bolsheviks eventually managed to get a military together and came down. The French quietly left without a fight.
I didn’t know about the WW1 and Bolshevik episodes. As for the French, though, I’d say discretion was the better part of valour in that instance. What use would the Crimea have been to France? And after surviving the Western Front, who among the thinned, war battered remnants of the French army would have wanted to lose his life in 1919, for a desolate foreign peninsula on the far side of the Black Sea? The British force sent to Murmansk in 1919 to fight Trotsky mutinied and had to be withdrawn.
Always wondered who ordered Trotsky to be released from a holding camp in Canada on his way from Manhattan to Russia.
Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?
I think Simplicius is missing what is most important right now - the real possibility of NUCLEAR WAR, (tactical battlefield anyway, but how can it be limited to that? There are all sorts of nukes) We know the Russians are being targeted by NATO assets using NATO member missiles, and are throwing a fit internally, especially in the military, and moving weapons around, including nuclear capable missiles 11 minutes from Miami. We are getting a lot of Measheimer recently as he explains how mighty adversaries face off against each other. Aren't decapitation strikes the most efficient? Kill Boris and Starmer, and the Brits would cheer! Dr. Doctorow got blasted but he said nothing that Paul Craig Roberts said long ago. Russia's lack of response is seen as weakness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROszkTSiyTE
He's completely missing the point of diagnosing your mental illness. I suggest you spend a few years meditating in the kitchens of a military barracks; at least there they'll teach you the meaning of every letter in the word WAR. There won't be a nuclear conflict, not even with a 10 kg mini-nuke, because it's not the warhead that will determine the demise of the person who launches it, but the term NUCLEAR. What do you think, that leaders aren't as afraid of the sound of thunder as you are? What do they call you in your neighborhood? The walking lunatic, the mentally challenged one, the degenerate...?
The point is Russia is not fighting Ukraine but Europe through NATO and Starmer, Macron, and Mertz are not afraid, but need war to survive. Mearsheimer was the one who brought up "nuclear" option before I did, and Veterans Today/ Gordon Duff reported the repeated use of tactical nukes already, including an all in exchange between Russia and Ukraine back in 2014. There is a great deal of technical over-hang here for both sides to expand the war, and NATO is attacking deep into Russia with nuclear capable missiles and taking out its navy with British sea drones. This is a hybrid war fighting on Financial, propaganda, as well as military theaters and in my neighborhood my military related relatives believe Russia is evil and we have to win. That's how the military thinks. So I think you are attached emotionally to the editorializing which is not balanced, and there is real danger here.
Troll alert... Last time I looked the Russians were handing NATO's ass to them. It's so bad the US had to pull out.
"Russia's lack of response is seen as weakness."
If that's the best you can do your not going to last long. Best start looking for a job more suited to your talents.
ILPS. We have used colonial troops effectively for centuries. Look at the Indian army.
Hopefully all young Britons, of whatever hue will tell the Establishment to fuck itself, but kudos to you for showing your prejudices.
If we didn't know you were a fool before, now we have proof.
Oh look everyone, we have a virtue signaler. His point, is an obvious one. The recently imported population of the UK is far less likely to volunteer for this nonsense than the legacy native born population. I don’t blame them either. Maybe you can volunteer though, or better yet go on one of those combat vacations that some of countrymen seem to be so fond of.
John osman is just a Jew or a defender thereof.
I'm just not a racist, like most decent people.
You otoh....
When one figures that that the concept of race was infact invented to promote racism, the term takes on a different hue…. Everyone is mortal and as such they discriminate. I’m aware of mine, and the center on Content of Character rather than farce shape and skin tone. What are yours?
Character is not an attribute of race. If you truly discriminate on character than you are discriminating on an individual basis. If you assign characteristics, particularly negative, to a group of people based on race then you are a) wrong and b) being racist, like that Dhdh clown.
What is wrong with being racist? Grouping and noticing patterns is fundamental logic
We have had this discussion before. There are good and bad in all races. However, other than Oskar Schindler and John Rabe, there are no good Nazis.
https://substack.com/@natsoctoday1/note/c-188546240?r=1iico5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Globalize the intifada.
Osman is just an insulting blowhard, determined to defend the conduct of the british government and intel services to the end
he also denies that the british commonwealth has any significance at all. - to which I say, "if it has no significance and doesn't serve british interests, why not dissolve it?"
and by way of answering my own question: The answer is obvious: the Commonwealth serves not only political and propaganda purposes (in the UN, for instance) but it also serves as a source for intelligence operatives (native) and for economic plunder
some of the world's poorest countries are exploited by the Commonwealth, they gain 0 advantages from membership (except maybe their corrupt rulers) but they provide a big, useful sandbox for british machinations worldwide.
Sun never sets
god shaves the queen
the fascist regime
Hes gonna look so cute in green once his beloved crown dresses him up and throws him into combat. I've seen a few panty assed faggots like him. Mercifully they don't last long. They cry a lot and and their own team usually snuffs them simply to get some decent rest and to stop drawing unwanted attention. That's war for you.
Too old to serve now, did my time in the 70's-80's.
Donny I bet you've seen LOTS of panty assed faggots, but if you go to gay bars then I suppose that's inevitable?
Look I don't want to be rude, but I shit things that have more value than you, Fake and dog breath. Stop wasting my time.
Dhdh, you can stick around I find you entertaining.
Sure you did 😂
I would have thought you could satisfy your interests based solely on the co-members of the cubicle farm you operate from….
Brilliant….and accurate….
Well I struggle to be civil to morons. And you, dog-breath are an absolute prize plum.
The Commonwealth, despite your tedious obsession, couldn't be more irrelevant.
The Queen is dead by the way, try to keep up.
I stand by my statement
the Commonwealth is nothing but an extensive network of heavily exploited territory and bases for the british intel operation. There is a reason why MI6 is so successful, it can draw on a huge base of native population for its operatives
and as for the queen, how do we know FucKing Chuck isn’t one?
Jake your opinion doesn't match the facts. Actually since immigrants tend to be poorer, they are MORE likely to join the forces. The same way Hispanics are over represented in the US military.
Feel free to retract your ill -informed opinion.
Of whatever hue? The problem is the Jew infesting the west with these low iq brown biological weapons. Why no open borders for ‘isreal’
You're a "weapon" pal, not them.
lol. Thank you. But is Britain better now than 100 years ago ?
In many ways much better.
1925 wasn't anything to write home about. We live longer, have better food, healthcare education, employment opportunities and so on.
I'm sure you wish it was 1933 though?
lol. You really are a simple minded Jew slave.
Better by far but not as better as it was in 1970.
I joined the now defunct Wiltshire Royal Yoemanry in 1976,. As Armoured infantry all we ever practiced was how to retreat through Europe from the Soviets. It was the atrocities of the Vietnam war that prompted me to gain some military training in readiness for the World Wide Civil War, WWIII.
It seemed inevitable with the political Left and the Right clearly all puppets of the same lowlife criminal elite, it appeared obvious to me the need for humanity to out the then Billionaire Global Crime Families along with the Treasonous politicians and bureaucrats as man's only hope evolving into a higher level of consciousness.
Since then I have watched Western Governments commit near all Terrorist crimes against humanity, with their own citizens the main targets, false flag atrocities such as 911, the Port Arthur massacre, the London Transport Bombings, the Madrid Metro Bombing, the Christchurch Mosque massacre and the Kiev massacre to name but a few, but then came the clincher, the Covid19 genocidal world Coup D'état where pretence became such a thin veneer that the contempt of the parasite caste for humanity made it plain we are playing their End Game.
If humanity does not rise on mass in defiance of these demonic low lives, hell on earth is inevitable.
More than one single thing is needed to mark the awakening of defiance against tyranny, one would be an on mass the absolute refusal of conscription with press gangs simply vanishing from the face of the Earth if they venture out into the suburbs, and around the West absolutely thousands of mock gallows being in people's front yards.
Christchurch was a fake event. And the terrorist crimes against us citizens predates the ones you mention. Don't forget Gladio ops in Eurrope in the 60ies to the 80ies.
Indeed the video taken by the supposed gunman was blatantly all done firing blanks; when the WEF terrorist Jacinda Ardern banned the video I down loaded it and there is no doubt he didn't shoot and kill anyone in the Mosque,, but there were two government terror exercises in Christchurch that very day, and there were claims terrorist links at that Mosque.
It is possible those that ran the Mosque were coerced into going along with the theatre where one or two of the extremist members of the Mosque were murdered by Arderns Globalist terrorist regime, to enable the disarming of New Zealander patriots.
Also two different mosques; one in still photos that were in media had different carpet and interior to the mosque in the video.
I never noticed, I recall outside interveiw with Mosque leaders, and the video made by the blanks “Shooter”, or should I say “Shooters” as he appeared to be a Chameleon.
The Jew pager terrorism is the pinnacle of the Jew run ‘west’
"World Wide Civil War"
bit of a non sequitur, isn't it?
Possible take: since every world war is different from the last, perhaps this next one will be in the form of multiple “civil wars”….
Put it this way, the Blatant treason of the "Wests", installed Governments will at some stage force rational citizens to respond with force, to the growing treasonous crimes of the globalist puppet Governments. The murderous response of globalist puppet regimes will ignite the defence of a growing wholesome freedom movement which can ultimately only be seen as worldwide civil wars.
"As Armoured infantry all we ever practiced was how to retreat through Europe from the Soviets."
;O) ;O) ;O)
And thank god for that. The last thing we need in this country is a wave of idiotic nationalism sweeping through the whites here.
So only Jews are allowed to have ethnic nationalism ? Just admit you are a Jew.
Huh? Who left the village idiot out?
Takes one to know ......................................
Admit you are a Jew ‘cc’
Blah blah jew blah blah
Idiotic nationalism would be the description that the "Left Overs" might hope for, it is rational Nationalism that will win the day.
yes, and is that because of the " nazi lineage" or the jew puppets that run the "west"?
Or the Arabs in London's West end
You are that stupid? You know the Brits mobilised Irish, Scots, Welsh, Sepoys, GHURKAS to build their Empire?
THAT
IS
HOW
EMPIRES
WORK
YOU
FOOL
Spare us with your English Eugenic bullshit, racist dope.
Dermot. There is never a shortage of stupid in this comment section.
You and Fremont are the perfect examples.
Oh good one! Snappy zinger there from the one note fiddle.
Do you hate Jewish people because they're funnier than you?
Jews trade in poopoo pee pee humor because of their infatuation with bodily functions because that is what their stupid. Books focus on.
I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
Ah, the bad old days. They will come again?
https://youtu.be/osSO_T3X6zw?si=RgN8De-WewRWDSj0
Why would woke fools follow this page?, unless in the vain hope they might find other Shills to troll rational discussion. Go back to the BBC if you seek the support of other's with their heads up their own rear passageways.
Come off it, CommercialPrivateEquitybbc is so right wing it can't sit on the toilet the right way round.
The ones who allowed all of the immigrants are the same ones who'll (attempt to) enlist only whites in the next war; what better way to whittle down the white peasantry than to push all of their males into the meat grinder.
Most of the Brits capable of fighting are not going to fight for the WEF, Tampon-Charlie, and more "diversity".
Darkly hilarious when you think about it. That Indian import into China that ruined so many lives, has now been replicate inside Britain as a larger poison.
The Common People are now the Diverse People, with nothing in common.
Your first comment is perhaps a liitle too optimistic, the majority are by nature followers. The idea that all they were taught to believe is not true, goes against programming that started from the day they were born.
Your second and third comments suggest you may well be as pessimistic about the future as I am.
African men fought well against the European invaders, notably the Zulu but not only them. And the same is true across Asia as well. And both regions peoples fought incredibly bravely and tirelessly for the British Empire in WW2. Like the Gurkhas. Afghans and that whole area are natural warriors (If such a thing exists).
NOBODY except moronic psychopaths actually WANTS to go fight in E Europe for pointless ends, but the browner Brits will fight just as hard as any Brit whose ancestors lived there for thousands of years.
The 81st West Africa Division and the 82nd West Africa Division campaigned in Burma, after seeing off the Italians in East Africa.
lol. lol. Thousands of negro savages vs a few redcoats. Brown. Rita is an oxymoron. You guano are just a moron.
It would be in their best interest if they succeeded; if it is the English sons who join Ukraine, they will remain there, even alive, stateless after the immigrants have renamed the EU following its conquest. The same situation applies to the majority of EU countries.
Promise immigrants a british passport after military service. They still can get plenty of volunteers.
Will the "english heritage" british be diluted? Yes. Will anyone ask them what they think or like or want? Nope.
The English-heritage troops of the Ballymurphy Massacre and Bloody Sunday?
The UK can repurpose their tv detection vans for forced conscription, starting with those who make harmful sm posts violating the online harms act!! They'll be avoiding certain neighborhoods of course, concentrating on taverns and fish 'n chip shops! ;)
What is it with EU leaders urging their citizens to sacrifice their children? I would be happy to sacrifice my Prime Minister and their family to the front line.
The Jew cares not how many goyim die
>The major story continues to be Russia’s crippling strikes on the Ukrainian energy grid
Once again -- what is the point?
The grid has been taken to the brink for three yeas now, never pushed over it.
And even if it is to be pushed over it, how is that going to help?
Putin has been under strict oligarch orders not to mobilize, and he has diligently complied with those. So Russia can turn the power off in Ukraine completely, but it is in no position to take advantage of it by quickly sweeping through the territory, because it doesn't have the forces. As the recent fiasco in Kupyansk demonstrated yet again.
It is also not going to stop the attacks on Russian territory, which have severely intensified the last week -- the average was 250 drones a day over the previous ten days, and now you see missile attack alerts repeatedly for Tula, Kaluga, Ryazan, Moscow, even as far as Penza. Which fact is completely hushed up, but you can't hush up the burning oil depots, refineries and factories all over the country.
If you want to stop those attacks, shutting the grid won't help. You need to seal the borders. Which, again, means boots on the ground, lots of them. But Putin and the oligarch traitors who control him firmly refuse to do that.
So, again, what is the point and what is this going to achieve other than freezing to death many thousands of unfortunate Russian babushkas in Odessa and Kiev?
Russian Babushkas frozen to death in Odessa, really? You mean Macron legionnaires and Starmer M15, M16 and German former East Europeans, Turkish, Polish and Bulgarian maffiosi, all turned in glacier statues.
There are lots of Russian patriots in Odessa who want nothing to do with the current Kyiv regime. As for GM's question "what will it achieve", the answer is obvious. To get the average citizen to evacuate so there are fewer human shields to contend with.
Yup. Load them onto the German welfare bill and housing shortage.
Why Odessa and why now?
It makes no sense.
Odessa is years away from being fought for, i.e. this has zero military utility, and it is the most pro-Russian city.
Why are you punishing your own people?
Shut down Western Ukraine and depopulate it, move in with ground forces from Belarus. That would solve a real problem and punish those who deserve it.
Instead Putin is punishing the Russians in Odessa...
There are no russians in Odessa yet. If Russia were to think of Ukrainians as russian, than how could they kill even one? This is war , maybe civil war, but the end justifies the means, as this is existential for Russia. After a referndum ,yes Odessa is russian, with the benefits and help it requires, but not sooner, since today it is a NATO port. I think Odessa will be russian in 2027, the UAF will collapse next year.
> Odessa is years away from being fought for
You have no idea, years or a couple of months.
> i.e. this has zero military utility
It's the city from which naval drones are launched from, a city of particular interest and residence of the British and French military.
> punishing your own people?
They'll become "our people" only after a laborious and painful filtration process, not before.
So what are they waiting for?
Nobody in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev cares whether Ukrainians freeze or starve.
Of course they care in Wash, Brux and Kiev they need everybody (corpses) to execute their dirty jobs. No corpses no victory and in the final no deals.
The usual tiresome broken record drivel from the idiot with the suppressed homoerotic Putin fixation. Get a shrink.
your long wished nuclear attack will freeze many more babushkas everywhere. Whats the point you still insist in downgrading Russia avoiding to talk about the Ukranian defeats? Wouldnt you support the nazi junta in Kiev?
Do not look on these attacks on energy supply from a military perspective. First, the grid is old Soviet style; quick replacement is only found on the territory of the former USSR. Second, Europe follows this Green New Deal, meaning replacing every carbon-based energy use by electricity from wind and sun. All the grids must be rebuilt to support the electric cars, the hydrogen production, the gas heating (...). We had an accident in Kaprun, the biggest pumped storage; it will take more than one year to replace the damaged parts—and believe me, this project has the highest priority in all of Europe. You see, this is the perfect time to derail the main European project.
I understand very well why the strikes are carried out. It is not to actually destroy the grid. If that was the intention, all of Ukraine will have been under permanent blackout in January 2023 under Surovikin. Instead Surovikin was removed as the SMO commander and the strikes stopped.
They are are carried for two reasons:
1) The idiotic idea that this will force the Ukronazis to come to the table to negotiate. Which has predictably spectacularly backfired, because Ukraine is a fully disposable proxy while to the extent anyone in charge there cares about the ordinary people, sacrificing them is seen as something heroic among the fanatical Banderites. The cynical ones who are in it to make a profit simply don't care, if anything, if Putin can be blamed for a large-scale humanitarian catastrophe that is great for them. The West doesn't care at all, Ukrainians are just another variety of Russia for them, so the more of them dead, the better.
And this is, of course, all predicated on the even more idiotic idea that those people can be negotiated with and that anything but their terminal and total physical annihilation can solve the problem.
2) The more cynical ploy here is to show the Russian public that something is done about the situation while not actually doing anything meaningful. See, we are hitting them hard. Never mind that it has no military effect and that we are very careful not to hit them hard enough to actually shut the grid down.
That the energy grid strikes were going to achieve precisely zero in terms of deterrence enforcement was clear to everyone with a brain from the start.
That this is internal PR damage control from the Kremlin only emerged gradually, but it is now also quite clear.
What this did achieve though is providing a justification for NATO to start systematically destroying Russian infrastructure.
If Putin was another Western agent, like Gorbachev was, tasked with the controlled demolition of the country (but this time carried to completion), he would be doing exactly the things that he is doing and not doing the things that he is not doing.
Putin is a western agent who has incriminating evidence on trump which he uses to control Trump and get him to do Putin’s bidding.
Idiot, your head is so far up your own ass you can’t tell day from night.
what a waste if time trying to smear Putin...
"War is a racket" no more evident than the Ukraine-Russia -(think US) war theatre debacle. In Great Britain the illusion of Westminster suited duds ruling the country is no more.
UK column explains these aspects well.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2025
Cynicism could be the protagonist's name in the drama...
Why would the Kremlin pursue a plan of 'forcing the Ukronazis to the table to negotiate' when it is increasingly clear that Russia will accept only Ukraine's unconditional surrender, in the environment of increasingly-frantic 'peace plans' which are thinly-disguised attempts to extract Ukraine without having to give up anything substantial? All that is required for this sort of negotiation is a Ukrainian who can read and write, considering the President is illegitimate; the guy who services the photocopier would do.
Meanwhile, Russia continues a military campaign which minimizes civilian casualties, which are by far the lowest I have ever seen in any conflict of this scale; probably why western reports routinely add the 12,000 or so who were killed in the DNR/LNR by the Ukrainian Army before the SMO even started. It does this for its own reasons, and seems unmoved by shrieks that this is weak.
Aren't most of the trains electric? Would it hurt transport.
1) Has it hurt transport? No -- it's not as if the AFU is short of anything on the front lines
2) There are diesel locomotives as back up
P.S. If you want to shut down the trains, you go after the locomotives. But that was off limits too for three and a half years. Then they started hitting them, but it has again been half hearted -- Russia has the means to take out every single locomotive in Ukraine within 48 hours and shut it all down completely. Yet it has been several months of intermittent strikes on depots, but trains in Ukraine still run on time.
Same shit show as the grid situation. Some strikes, but nothing that really makes a difference.
armchair general
bravo
Oh no... what is Russia to do? It is on the verge of defeat! I guess they better surrender and give into Zelensky's demands.
What many here are overlooking is this little sentence:
"...A key focus now is to find replacement equipment in different parts of Europe, which we can deliver to Ukraine quickly..."
That sounds just too good to be true, but knowing how idiotic these western lemmings are, it just might be. The Ukrainian war has already stripped the West, and especially Europe, of munition reserves, down to bare bone and then some; the brits gave away all their mobile artillery; tanks, missiles, even small arms munitions were expended to the point where NATO freely admits it has resources for a week's worth of high intensity conflict.
It looks like now they will start stripping themselves of transformers, generators, and powerplant spares. And the first to go will be the ones best compatible with Ukrainian systems, meaning that the former Soviet bloc countries forming the eastern bulwark of NATO are going to be razed---Poland, Romania, etc. will be destroying what infrastructural resilience they have. Europe is getting hollowed out, while Russia is hardly exerting itself. After infrastructure repair capacity, the next thing to be pointlessly expended in Ukraine will be manpower---already they are shuffling their feet, eager to feed French and Brit soldiers into the meat grinder. The entire thing plays out as a sacrificial farce.
Sealing the border crossings, as GM suggests, would be counterproductive in that context; it would amount to a tourniquet, saving Europe at the cost of letting Ukraine necrotize. It is much better in the long run to let the bleeding continue.
The British ruling class, and that includes not only the talking heads in suits and ties in Westminster but also the generals wearing the gold braid and fancy hats at HQ, have long since burned through any credibility they once had. Especially amongst the young people who they expect to line up in order to be blown to hell by katyushas and drones.
Defend Britain from the small boats crossing the channel every day, Impossible !
(because of democracy)
Defend the Donbass and Crimea from the Russians, Essential !
(also because of democracy).
>The British ruling class [...] have long since burned through any credibility they once had
Which matters because Britain is famously a democracy in which decision making reflects popular sentiments as the elites deeply care about the opinion and well-being of the masses...
At the rate the Brits are imprisoning their herd members for offenses as severe as typing 'fa**ot' in a private message, apparently no one on that island has opinions worth caring about.
Using crap American slang ought to be an imprisonable offence.
No they don't. This is a zionist controlled police state where people are arrested for tweeting the wrong thing.
As Father Ted once said: ‘Now THAT’S sarcasm.'
The lady doth protest too much methinks. ;O) Britain has never been a democracy.
"The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings."
-Lyndon LaRouche
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How many strongholds if any are on the way to Zaporozhye city?
Only Orekhev. And It's being approached from the West and soon the east.
Yeh, and Orekhov is way down south, could easily bypass it.
It would need to be cut off at least. The Russians have been probing for months. It is looking more and more like the push to Zaporozhye could have been one of the Russian's major goals all along. The Donbass arc is the obvious other main goal but being so heavily fortified makes it very slow progress.
"Zaporozhye could have been one of the Russian's major goals all along."
always has been
this is a new kind of war and it takes time, "big arrow" moves are out
Odessa is also on the list for sure
Does not really matter in the new reality of drone warfare. Every village is one regardless.
How many strongholds were there in Kursk? There were some Russian fortifications right at the border, but those were bypassed quickly because there was nobody to man them. And then it took six months and the North Koreans intervening to clear the Ukro-NATO-Nazi hordes from cities and towns much deeper, where obviously there were no fortifications.
It will be the same slow grind everywhere, until Putin finds the integrity to:
1) Mobilize
2) Seal the borders and fuck what Russian oligarchs and liberals and so called "allies" in China, India, Brazil, etc. think about the methods used to do that.
until you find some integrity to tell the truth. Youre Putin slander wont work.
You behave exactly as a religious cult member. I've said it many times, but it needs to be brought up again.
And you behave exactly as a professional NATO operator.
He is a troll. He doesn't do integrity
Strategy GM
- this is the First World War going backwards,
- a really existential war for RUssia,
- a global war, Russia needs support from China and India
- there is only one red line, nuclear war
- for the war to end Ukraine, NATO; UK, US have to be defeated
- it is preferable to have negotiated defeat that to fight to the bitter end
- that is why is Putin offering off ramps, from 2007, Minsk 1, Minsk 2, offer to NATO in 2021, Istanbul talks, 2024 summer offer, Istanbul plus...
- and intervening militarily at the same time, Georgia, Crimea, SMO
- Russia is strong, but Russia doesn't need to fight all the enemies at the same time
Why?
Look at you GM, you call yourself s Russian patriot, and you keep yelling constantly, continuosly, rabidly against Putin, against Russian army from the first day of the war...and when Putin is objectively quite successful. I can only imagine how you would behave if there were serious Russian losses, mistakes, (like for example colossal mistakes of Stalin in his fight against Hitler)
>you call yourself s Russian patriot
Where? The tricolor is a flag the Vlasovites flew, remember that.
>and you keep yelling constantly, continuosly, rabidly against Putin, against Russian army from the first day of the war...
Another lie -- I have consistently pointed the Russian army is not to blame here because it is shackled by Putin
>and when Putin is objectively quite successful
Putin started the war with the stated objectives of demilitarizaiton and denazification.
On both of those metrics things have gone dramatically in the opposite direction.
Was Ukraine able to launch 500 light cruise missiles a day deep into Russia back in 2022?
That is Putin being "objectively quite successful" according to you?
>Strategy GM
There is no strategy here.
This is Putin squirming and twisting trying to kick the can down the road until the West agrees to yet another shitty deal that will keep the Russian oligarchs happy while postponing the really big war for another decade. At which point it won't even be a NATO invasion of Kursk, it will be a NATO invasion directly into Omsk and Novosibirsk.
Look at where things were geostrategically when Putin took power, where they are now.
That is the result of his "strategy"
Putin Putin Putin. You are no different to a NATO talking head
He IS a NAFO talking head!
GM makes his points and sticks to his guns, you guys are like flies horse's swish away with their tales in the summertime.
I know nothing and therefore I know everything said Socrates, but, SMO- wise isen't it rather late in the day to make the citizens of Kiev freeze and go hungry?
Ah yes, I remember now, it's a war of attrition: Putin has remained level headed while those with any sense, money, position or influence have left the city long ago...
The timeline for territorial advance is not linear. At some point, the Territorial Brigades will simply disintegrate, leaving the Azov types isolated.
The Russians could be at the Dnepr very rapidly once the collapse occurs.
Russia will need electricity for their logistics moving forward. Its' good Europe loves Ukraine so much, they are going to have ten million more disgruntled nazis living with them soon.
Ten million nazis still a lot better than a hundred million water buffalos.
Word.
WTF are you talking about?????
I would have thought the opposite to be true…
Russian military, and many others, don't need local electricity for their war machine. They supply their own.
The Russians are being kind cutting the power in winter. Cutting it in the summer means no refrigeration. Food spoils fast without refrigeration. If power is not restored with 15 hours or so, most of the food in the shops of Kiev would be spoilt. The whole population of Kiev would be starving after 72 hours if Russia cut the power in summer.
I don't agree, no power in sub-zero winters causes more deaths and illnesses than in summers. No water delivery as I said above. No sewerage.
Sure they will have food that's not spoiling but how do they thaw and cook it? No forests for firewood in cities.
Are propane gas tanks common in Ukraine? I don´t know. Here, if the power would go out for extended period, just about everyone has 15 - 30 KGs of propane on hand for heating, cooking, and so forth.
Yes, they are common as are primus stoves and camping style stoves that run on a very wide variety of fuels. Heating comes primarily from dedicated plants, not the "co-generated" plants Kiev tells lies about.
It gets pretty cold in winter in Kharkiv & Kyiv. Even during the first winter of this war with the so-called "mild" power disruptions, I saw my friend in Kyiv freezing in their apartment, sleeping in outer clothes, inside the sleeping bags. Now, I can't even imagine...
I can imagine. I spent many winters in the Northern U.S., including one in Chicago which was akin to what the Germans and Russians experienced at Stalingrad (1.2 meters of snow, 29 C degrees below 0, 60 Km per hour winds for 3 weeks). All the heat there was gas though, and we were without power for nearly a full day because of the blizzard. Fortunately, we don´t have winters anything like that here in South America.
I'm well familiar with Stalingrad (Volgograd) winters. I'm also familiar with much colder/windier places in Russia than Stalingrad and with Toronto in winters (same as Chicago) some winters are fine, but when polar vortex - brrr
Hectic! That's unimaginable to one such as myself. On the polar opposites side, I'm used to daytime temperatures averaging 50 degrees celcius in the shade. I fought a war in those temperatures and it was as much of an enemy as the army we faced. But I cannot even begin to imagine what you described. I guess that's why vodka was invented. Pröst..
Hello Aurorus.
In the US you do have heat waves that kill a bunch of folks. But, the sustained cold in winter is much more of a threat. The authorities really get on edge when that happens, much more so than in weather intensifications in summer. Places such as New York and Chicago have real problems with the number of people dying in those cold surges. This is my recollection of things there back home.
You could have kept your mouth shut, but you chose to let everybody know what a braindead dumbass you are. Stupid fool!
Then what military effect will shutting the grid down have on the Ukro/NATO/Nazi military?
None, right?
Then why are expensive munitions wasted on it, and not expended on eliminating the Ukro/NATO/Nazi leadership instead?
Wrong, as usual. Shutting the grid down has a huge impact on the military, starting with rail transportation that depends on electricity and continuing with the web of factories creating war supplies either by new manufacture or repair. It also has a huge impact on logistics centers. There just aren't enough generators to power all the many, many power-consuming nodes, from fuel stations to barracks and back office military centers, that a war requires.
There is no more of a welcoming place for Nazis than the birth place of both Nazism and fascism.
There is no reason to call the Ukrainian "disgruntled nazis". There is a very small minority that fits this description. Not the population in general.
War propaganda from either side is absurd. One should try to understand what has happened and what should be done about the future.
Extreme partizanship is not the way.
Every time Nazis lose a war it turns out most of them weren't Nazis anyway.
Yeah, like all those hundreds of thousands of people that lined the streets of cities with adulation everywhere Hitler came to visit in the Third Reich. Oh, and nobody served in the SS or actually fought in the Wehrmacht... they were all cooks and clerks.
Just like those hundreds of thousands of American Bund Nazis, who didn't vanish, but just went "underground" in 1941.
und haben es nicht gewüsst (thank you, three little monkeys: no see, no hear, no speak).
>There is a very small minority that fits this description. Not the population in general.
It's not the population in general, but it is definitely not a "very small minority" either. It's a lot of people.
"small minority " who hold the key positions in the Government and the Military.
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Listen to the school teacher on Obama/Nuland's administration NATO/Ukraine/Syria policy, 2015:
youtu.be/UsT-O5qQaWY?t=6647
Thank you for that link.
https://youtu.be/UsT-O5qQaWY?si=2UbABtCXzYXbze83
I grow very tired of pointing out to my acquaintances that their beloved presidents before Trump (be it Obama, Reagan Clinton or virtually ANY since WWII) were all part of the foreign policies building up to the present situation.
ANY POTUS is a puppet to the MIC/CIA's Imperialist Deep State.. It's all just a kabuki theater..
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US presidents come and go, but FED/FBI/CIA/NSA/NED/DHS/ICE and the neocons' Wolfowitz Doctrine remain in the Deep Swamp..
So much for the "turnover of power"…
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"It doesn't matter who is "elected", we always get John McCain"
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The "New Kissinger/Brzeziński" named A. West Mitchell and his "Sequencing Strategy" against Russia and China:
youtube.com/shorts/CuJsngZJi7U
He wrote an article in 2021 already on sequencing
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137
They are all just cogs.
We have peeps like this here on the blog as well. "Trump wants peace" and similar jokes ;)
Nazis. Who sacrifice themselves at the altar of a queer, coke addict Jewish clown. St Hitler (PBUH) is spinning in his grave 😂. Nazis..
I suppose there is a certain poetic justice to it….
"Useful idiots" have different labels.
Dont get out much do you?
I think it is really the fear of their incompetence exposed that is driving the European gang. After Trump jumped the boat and hanged them with major energy price increases as a parting gift they realized they are at the end of the road and are making these militaristic noises to mislead their own populations. From some speeches I judge that even Biden had serious doubts about the outcome of this conflict already early. He was just talking sometimes killing as many Russians as possible as a final goal. Recall the exchange between the two psychos: Biden to Z: Just get out of there as fast as possible. Z: I don’t need an uber ride, I need ammunition.
I also think that total darkness for Kiev will take the city down, the latest next summer if it can be kept that long. That would mean food distribution and storage, large part of the mass transportation and industry all going bye bye. There is a limit to how much those people can take.
And a lack of electricity affects water delivery too. And frozen sewerage pipes will ultimately burst. A nice mess they will be in.
Even here in the US, when we have power down @storms - no light, no heat, no hot water, because it's all electricity based. Luckily, it's not Kyiv/Kharkiv winters
Who is "they"?
Not any of the people actually responsible for starting the war will be in any sort of inconvenience, "they" will be all ordinary people, most of them ethnic Russians.
Meanwhile not a single precision strike has seriously hit the people responsible for starting and perpetuating the war.
GM. Mate you been advocating raining nuclear fire on the"ordinary people" for months, and now you're worrying about them being inconvenienced by the cold?
>advocating raining nuclear fire on the"ordinary people"
Not on ordinary people who don't deserve it.
In Western Europe and North America most people deserve it, as they do in several places in Eastern Europe.
This is why people don't take you seriously Doctor Strangelove. 🤔
Big cities are incredibly vulnerable. You need power and lots of power to make them environments where humans can survive. Water, sewage, circulation, food distribution. If I were a kiev citizen I would have moved a long time ago.
Judging by my spam inbox aka Gmail, there's been a major uptick in single women from Kiev looking for a man recently....
I get that too. But I think "No, they've already suffered enough."
LOL
Keeping mind that up until recently the lights have remain ON….the didnt have to….
Yep. Here in the failing UK it's all about wag the dog: https://dearscotland.substack.com/p/wag-the-dog-anyone
the problem is that no one can guarantee that the genocidal loons in the EU (specifically, but not limited to britain) would not be willing to launch a fucking nuke, claiming "we saw a russian missile inbound and couldn't take a chance on it being a nuke"
there are some more loons in the US that are capable of such things
it all comes down to how desperate the loons are; they will not be the ones to suffer it it ever comes to that point, and civilizational suicide is okay for them as well.
This is precisely the heart of the issue. A bunch of homicidal/suicidal maniacs were allowed into position to destroy the Western World.
Incompetents usually don't know they're incompetent. They won't be tolerated by a competent above and incompetents hire even more stupid below.
After Nord Stream was destroyed they should have smelled the trap they were herded into. Instead, they just sleepwalked into the whole jam and sacrificed their economies.
They really might have convinced themselves at the start that it was "Russia, Russia, Russia," and then had to save the mug.
"Funnily enough, rumors that Russia is fine with Ukraine joining the EU have spurred some criticisms from the pro-Russian commentariat."
There are actually W peeps that already whine that Put'n is weaponising UA's EU accession.
Medvedev had several posts, increasingly direct, on that subject, saying the obvious -- the EU has stated that its goal is our destruction, are we out of our fucking minds for our official position to be that we don't mind Ukraine joining the EU?
So it's not just the "pro-Russian commentariat" that has criticized it.
Ukraine is also a member of OSCE. They are chipping in with the decolonisation as well. So what.
"Recognizes the systemic policy of violation of human and peoples’ rights in the Russian
Federation to the detriment of its indigenous peoples as colonialist and violating the basic United Nations declarations and, building on European Parliament resolution 2024/2579 of 29 February 2024 and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
resolution 2540/2024 of 17 April 2024, recognizes that decolonization of the Russian
Federation is a necessary condition for sustainable peace; "
https://www.oscepa.org/en/documents/annual-sessions/2024-bucharest/declaration-30/5029-bucharest-declaration-eng/file
Member of UN, many UN countries are hell bent on the destruction of Rus. On and on. Nothing new.
W goal of Rus destruction did not formalize since the SMO started, or in the last decade. It is the other way around, all of these events that we are witnessing are the result of the idea of the balkanization of Rus.
Do Russians love their children too, a song by Sting. Does Zelensky loves his Ukrainian children? British general now merchandising English and non English sons and daughters, and in France the same, Citoyens fils et fille la Patrie t’attend! but what about the German children? Of course the orphan generation of their grannies who lost their lives in…what’s the name of the place where so many got frozen to death?
No, they are gentiles and born to be slaves….or something to that effect.
The Brits ought to rise up, tar and feather the bastards saying their sons and daughters should prepare to die, then hang them by their lying throats. Heaven help the Englishmen if they swallow that propaganda swill.
They've been swallowing so much for so many years it's remarkable they still have room for more.
IT’s unclear just how any population can become so docile…but then again the mechanics are all around us
Well said Carl. You are right we should.
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Simplicius, thank you for reading the NATO political news so we don't have to. Honestly, if I wanted to read nonsense words from pedophiles, I could read Lewis Carroll or J.M. Barrie. And really, NATO's talking points have been nothing but SSDD for several years now.
Also, thank you for the tactical update, the only real news, and all that will matter in the end.
There are decent tactical updates daily on the Military Summary channel on youtube. The speculation and analysis should be taken with a pound or so of salt, but positions on the ground are usually supported by videos and informed reports.
Despite the clickbait video titles, I find Ruslan Belov to be less annoying. Dima often pushes CIPsO talking points and his inane prattle is just too much. Belov is unapologetically pro Russian, but also willing to dispute premature reports of gains from the RF MOD, has his own frontline sources which are often more accurate.
Fair points. I'm able to ignore his prattle, and dislike the voice Belov uses more. Although it's true I've been having to skip past his struggles to read English text, so I've restored my ruslanbelov86 tab on your recommendation.
Give Weeb Union a try as well.
History Legends with Alex is by far the most enjoyable…..
Belov is good, but Weeb Union is my main channel. Dima gets ahead of himself, and I find his accent difficult at times, probably due to my hearing; he often uses clickbait tactics.
Having just watched the latest Belov video, I was remembering how it seems to be an AI version of Dima's military summary presentation. The AI voice moved on to talking about (I think) the Pokrovsk area, while still showing Dima's map focused in the south. And the info text boxes were all labeled 'Military Summary'.
Weeb Union sounds so depressed. Seems like I'm 'overly' sensitive to audio, so even though Dima stumbles through English and wanders off into speculation, he's probably going to remain my main source. History Legends has a great voice, and it's too bad he doesn't do daily tactical updates.
Have watched 5 or 6 other update channels too, but for all his faults, Dima still hits the best time and info quality for my preferences. He does spend too much time reading those text boxes, so I skip over those.
The RuAf needs to clear the whole donbass. The negotiations are a farce, a retarded theatre of the absurd. They are only reinforcing the belief of massive Ru casualties by going along with it. I know everyone will jump in and shriek that this is all part of the plan, but if thats the case then this is a bad plan
>The RuAf needs to clear the whole donbass.
The whole Ukraine. Fixed that for you.
Lol, always on point.
Like a rotten cabbage on point….
The negotiations began on the second day of the conflict when casualty numbers were obviously very low. Why do you believe casualties are relevant to negotiations? I thought the Russians were negotiating to achieve their states goals, what's to lose. So far they have been excellent for the Russians. One just needs to look at the amount of support provided by the US since Trump took office. It's down to $0. Ukraine is in real trouble financially and the EU is struggling to steal the frozen funds.
The maximalist EU position is underpinned by the belief, conviction even, that russia has taken horrific casualties and that is on the verge of exhaustion. If they actually knew the real situation (or, we are wrong), their stance would be clearly insane
So thats what it boils down to. Either they are nuts, or the alt-media space (here, ppl like us) are wrong.
Or they have no other option. Their situation is catastrophic.
We have a pathetic leadership in russia that has been playing second fiddle for four years and doesn't even intend to take down its main adversary, the chimney sweeps..
Putin: 'Ukraine is our brothers and sisters'. What a loser.
"We" So you are a Russian in Russia? A treasonous grub.
Read the comments on topwar.ru with translate for strong concerns about the efficacy of military leaders.
>We probably need to fight (that's right, "FIGHT," not conduct a lazy military-police operation!) to prevent this from happening in principle. It feels like we're avoiding serious trouble for now, not THANKS to (someone's efforts), but DESPITE (someone's INACTION). The icon/cross is probably hanging somewhere, dangling on a chain, saving us for now. For now...
GM mini me , brain must be almost microscopic
This is GMu under another profile. Ukros are swarming Simps comment section. You woulndt be Russian in your wettest dreams.
Do you believe Russians adore their leaders for their great successes in steamrolling Ukraine?
Russians are fully behind their govt. and military.
I didn't say they weren't Russia supporters.
the third ukro fly trying to blame it all on Russia
Good luck with your struggles.
Gallup (the polling outfit used by major companies and governments) has Putin pegged at an 87 percent approved rating. The remaining 13 percent says he's way too soft. True story.
>So what else could we expect when neither the army nor industry were prepared for war? And the state apparatus, including its military component, was almost fatally ravaged by corruption and enemy agents.
Translated from Russian on a 'smallish' Russian site with a lot of military veterans. Around half of them have been on the site for more than 10 years. There is some disgruntlement with the way things are going.
For me as a California-American, I find it hard to explain why Russian leadership has chosen such a grind-fest, rather than doing the needful. The only positive result I can see is the disruption of the NATO alliance and the EU, but at great cost to the Russian people. I can only guess there are hidden intentions and purposes behind this realignment of the world order.
I concur and attest to the fact that there is always disgruntlement in the ranks, even in the best of times, for many reasons. We too questioned many decisions, for various reasons; the sanity of our seniors high on the top twenty list. What I also can say is that there are literally thousands of people paid a wage to assume identities (online is very very easy) for years, in order to gather intel or spread discord (paging GM 😉) but of course the average bloke won't cotton on to the traps. Nor do they have to. But it may surprise you to know how valuable seemingly innocent information can be. Wife's speak of deployments, times, places, names, numbers dead or wounded or missing, even the weather etc. Anything can be valuable, and it often is. But as things go, we believe what we want to, or rather, what suits us. The grind fest favours Russia. Near infinite recources, a solid industrial base, people, home ground and a near infinite supply of troops, be it their own or Chinese and North Koreans. A war of attrition doesn't favour NATOstan. And it's bleeding out the west's piggy bank. Russia could have finished Ukraine, or NATO, within a few days. But the world would end as we know it. And that's exactly what the zionist scum want, to rule over the ashes. Just my two cents.
We? Are you even a Russian or you just pretend to be one? Colour revolution in Russia for tomorrow?
You would have been saying the same thing against anyone who asked for Gorbachev's immediate removal circa 1987.
Shuddap & Leave
Nah, every circus needs a clown. Besides, once in a rare while he actually makes some good points.
"The “sons and daughters” of Great Britain must be ready to fight against Russia, "
Excepting of course the ones from the families listed in Burke's Peerage.
Better start the war after a Liverpool or Manchester United loss then, because that´s the only time that the ¨sons and daughters¨ of England are ready and drunk enough to fight anyone.
"Put'n weaponising Premier League Derby"
Just tell the drunken pub rats that Putin caused Liverpool to lose. That will get them to the front.
"You'll Never Walk Alone (on the front-line)"
Don't forget that Arshavin once scored 4 goals against Liverpool. The Scousers must really hate the Russians!
Liverpool fans are not a patriotic lot, neither are Man Utd.
Better try Chelsea and Rangers.
Blackburn Rovers v Burnley have an animosity dating back to the mid 1870s.
True Simon.
Also East Lancashire is a good recruiting ground for the army due to high unemployment. Are you from that part of the country, Simon?
Organize the English football thugs, post loss, load them onto busses and drive them to Kiev, stopping only for Bangers, beer and the loo. Monty Python drafted to write the battle plans. Reporters from The Onion to do war reportage. The West is safe for another 45 minutes. Small price to pay to keep civilization on track.
You are HIRED
"Excepting of course the ones from the families listed in Burke's Peerage."
And also excepting all the young Ukrainian men cruising around the UK in expensive cars.
the expensive Ukr number-plated cars are very noticeable, what's up with that, right....?
Yep. They're so noticeable in Europe too that even Trump's son mentioned them. He was speaking at some conference and talked about how he and his wife had just been in Monaco and literally half of the hyper-expensive supercars he saw in Monaco had Ukrainian plates. He went on to ask how a country with zero industry that has always been one of the poorest in Europe and for years has depended on handouts from the West could generate as many super rich people as all of the rest of Europe and the UK put together.
that's a funny anecdote! but really, that question alone (zero industry, poorest in Europe, depended on handouts) says a lot about Trump's son. it illustrates his provincial outlook, an incompetence to look behind the façade, not seeing the fraud, the corruption (Kolomoisky, anyone?), black market racketeering, and no awareness about the Ukr mob families.
right, that's enough for now.
Who should be strung up
Russian air defense systems shot down 545 (!!!) Ukrainian long-range kamikaze drones of the aircraft type in a single day, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
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4 YEARS ANNIVERSARY.... and the shit show goes on, hence
Putin is an incompetent and very cowardly leader that needs to be removed ASAP.
Cowardice in decision-making leads to such consequences.
Groundhog day doesn't even begin to describe the insanity of this complete disaster of an SMO, and genocide of your neighbour.
Putin is so incompetent that the EU is modelling itself to a Russian Gulag, POW and other willing offensive EU nations, are one moment to another awakening into a Siberian camp, splendid. Trump is right EU is on its deathbed.
Uh ......... not really.
>545 (!!!) Ukrainian long-range kamikaze drones
It's worse than that actually:
https://t.me/mod_russia/59428
>Air defense systems shot down a Grom-2 operational-tactical missile, 17 rockets from the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, and 545 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
It was 545 drones, plus at least three HIMARS salvos (assuming they shot down 17/18, but it could have been four salvos and they shot down only 17/24), and a Grom-2 missile, which Ukraine should not able to be producing at all.
This is the situation after four years of "demilitarization".
Remarkable success.
But make sure nobody will be allowed to ask Putin that question in a few days when he has his annual vanity boosting four-hour event.
P.S. Russia was supposed to be launching over a thousand Gerans a day by this point. But it isn't, the opposite is happening in fact and the intensity of strikes has gown down significantly. So the way things are going we will have moved from a disparity measured in two orders of magnitude in favor of Russia to rough parity not too far in the future (not that it has made a huge difference at the front anyway -- the AFU have plenty of everything). Because you have Russian industrial capacity (a country of 150M) versus the industrial capacity of a billion and a half people, the borders are still not sealed to this day, and the nuclear doctrine that Putin himself very publicly revised is completely ignored.
There is no air defense conceivable with current technology that can eliminate all damage when the salvos get to that size.
"But make sure nobody will be allowed to ask Putin that question in a few days when he has his annual vanity boosting four-hour event."
Pure bullshit from the local troll and tireless font of propaganda for morons. Anybody who is not the village idiot can look up the transcripts of Putin's annual report to the nation and call-in marathon and can see that it frequently features highly unflattering questions. Putin answers all of them.
By the way, the industrial capacity of the billion and a half people you cite (which appears to be what you think is the US alliance population) is near zero, because all the industry has moved to China. Russia has a far higher proportion of actual industry per capita than either the US or any US stooge. It also has far better access to the giant source of real industrial capacity, China, because a) Russia and China are friends and b) Russia and China share a direct border, and c) industrial capacity is all about having cheap energy and Russia / China have energy and the US and its stooges do not.
>By the way, the industrial capacity of the billion and a half people you cite (which appears to be what you think is the US alliance population) is near zero, because all the industry has moved to China.
Car production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_vehicle_production
It's over 40M for the combined West versus 1M for Russia. That's 100,000 per day versus 2,500.
Yeah, if China was to shut down exports it would be zero in the West very quickly. But guess what? China is not shutting down exports, so in practice it is 40:1.
Which means that in the not too distant future those 500 drones will be 5,000, and then even more.
Because the production complexity of a long-range drone is lower than that of a car.
And then it won't be 5-6 objects burning somewhere in Russia every day, it will be hundreds.
Unless the border is sealed and Ukraine is eliminated as a launch platform.
Total nonsense, like this:
"It's over 40M for the combined West versus 1M for Russia."
That's propaganda for morons, depending on the audience being so badly informed they don't know, as everybody with an IQ over 40 who knows the car market knows, that the majority of vehicles "produced" in the West are really made in China or other countries. Only a minority, and a small minority at that, of the content is actually made in what has become a de-industrialized West.
Setting aside obvious cases like Volkswagen group for decades having moved vehicle assembly to Africa and Asia, automobile production within Western countries primarily consists of assembly of parts made elsewhere. Even in the case of major assemblies "made" within Western countries such as engines and transmissions, those also depend upon sub-assemblies made elsewhere.
And for parts like steel stampings of body panels, traditionally still done in the West, those depend upon steel coming from other countries. Russia, for example, is one of the world's largest exporters of steel for car parts, including car panels. The stamping of steel sheet imported from other countries is not remotely as "industrial" a process as the creating of that steel and rolling it out into sheet.
As for the 1M vehicles produced in Russia annually, they're a minority part of the automobile market in Russia with well over 60% of it consisting of ultramodern supercars made in China. That makes sense for Russia given the shared border and very close relationships with China.
So if you quote only nominal country-of-origin for the holding company that oversees the worldwide production of brands it holds, you get a highly skewed view, as perhaps you intended given your habit of spouting propaganda for morons, of how car production relates to industrialization. It's not good news for the West, and that's in a sector where classically the US and its stooges are thought to have the least deindustrialization.
For intelligent, informed people, your citation of automobile production instead of being an example where deindustrialization is not occurring on the contrary is a classic example of how the US and its stooges have been deindustrialized: it's an industry that appears on the surface to still look strong and local when in fact it's already well beyond the point of no return to being hollowed out.
If you look at all the other industries that have fled the corrupt West, they've tended to follow a similar pattern. At first the huge multinationals that account for really big industries realize they're screwing themselves by keeping production in the foul West, so they start diversifying by moving production abroad. They often start with parts plants to manufacture parts overseas, either their own or contractors.
Over time, their plants in the host Western country switch from being actual producers to assemblers of parts made in foreign countries. They also discover that building their product in foreign countries, both producing and assembling overseas, results in a higher quality product, so they move more and more factories, including their assembly factories, overseas.
That's where the Western car sector is today. It's already hollowed out because most of the content in their cars is made outside the West, and they're well down the path of moving everything they can outside the West. They've already lost the key industries on which large scale automobile production depends.
>as everybody with an IQ over 40 who knows the car market knows, that the majority of vehicles "produced" in the West are really made in China or other countries.
No they are not. Those produced in China by Western companies are listed under Chinese production.
>Volkswagen group for decades having moved vehicle assembly to Africa and Asia
Yes, and it is counted under those countries' production numbers. Are you a fucking imbecile?
Mexico is listed as producing 4.2M cars a year. Which giant Mexican car company is doing that? Thailand is listed at 1.5M, Slovakia at 1M, etc.
Ah, no, you read "the majority of vehicles" to mean entire vehicles, missing the full meaning of phrase, that also means the majority of the *content* of vehicles. That's the point, that the great majority of vehicles that nitwits like you claim are produced in the West are really produced in China as parts with those parts being imported into the West and then assembled there.
Western dishonesty and intellectual corruption allows those Western producers to claim those vehicles were made in Germany or whatever without telling the truth that really, they were only assembled there with most of their components having been made in China.
The point, which you seem intent to hide because it exposes the lie you told by quoting auto statistics as indicating there isn't deindustrialization going on in the West, is that the majority of vehicles (that includes the *content* of those vehicles, which is what counts for industrialization) in the West is no longer made in the West. Whether it is a West that assembles vehicles out of parts mostly made in China or a West that doesn't even assemble vehicles any more but makes them in Mexico, the point is still that those industrial processes are no longer in the West. They've moved to China and other parts of the world outside the West.
John, you fell for his cherry picking trick. Of course he chose civilian cars production indicator, out of all of the possible industrial indicators. One of the weakest for Russia, relatively. Developing it into some nebulous explanation showing us that Russia is doomed.
Well, the conversation was about de-industrialization in the West relative to China. Russia has nothing to do with that. I suppose he picked that as a head fake for the weak minded, to change the subject away from the de-industrialization of the West.
But in his choice of a head fake he feinted his head into a brick wall, the reality that even if you choose something so superficially complimentary to the West, when you look closely it's not at all complimentary to the West. The reality of car production in the West is that it's assembly, not production, of parts that for the most part are made outside of the West.
It reminds me of a visit I made to a friend nearly 20 years ago, a man who was a successful Harley Davidson dealer in the US. My friend was a committed US patriot. He took great pride in selling motorcycles that were "made in USA" and were part of a core American mythology.
I've never personally been a big fan of Harleys. I'm one of those guys who was deeply unimpressed by the Briggs and Stratton (a lawnmower engine manufacturer, if you don't live in the US...) level of technology that characterized a Harley.
But at the same time I have to admit that hammering down an onramp onto an interstate highway on a Harley-based chopper is one of life's truly memorable experiences, at least if you are a real American guy. Heck, it's probably one of life's most memorable experiences if you're an American woman as well.
Be that as it may, my friend the Harley dealer, a guy much older than me, was hanging it up. I couldn't understand why he was giving up on a business that seemed to be doing fine. I asked him and he walked me back to his parts department, where it seemed about 90% of the parts that go into a Harley were marked "made in China."
For a true American patriot he just couldn't stand the psychological and moral friction of what had been a truly epic hard iron brand becoming basically a clothing and marketing thing with the bikes being a second tier priority that were mostly manufactured in China.
I get that. These days if you want a hard core Harley experience you do that riding on one of the Harley engine clones made by some true devotees in Arizona or Illinois or whatever, bolted to a custom frame for some righteous cruising down the highway. I've had the honor to ride a few of those and that I'll remember for the rest of my life, not the times I've spent rolling out of some prissy Briggs and Stratton, China-made clothing showroom that had a few shitty quality, overpriced motorcycles as accessories.
"Russia has a far higher proportion of actual industry per capita than either the US or any US stooge."
Game set and match. The Americans surrendered their industrial capacity decades ago. Mo' money...mo' money...mo' money. We've gotten so stupid here that we imagine we can fight more than safari wars sans industrial might. Along with this train wreck we have fools like Slow-Joe and 24hr-Don steering the ship of state, right off the nearest cliff. Makes my head hurt to think about it.
Speaking about 24hr-Don, he's just topped himself with his comments on Venezuela. He's managed to make himself look crazier than Caligula.
Trump just said that Venezuela has been stealing oil from the US. He's blockaded Venezuela until they "return the oil they stole from us."
Man, that's plain and simple insane. It also shows that Trump thinks Americans are complete imbeciles.
Ibsen's play, An Enemy of the People, anticipates the overdue decline and final nail in the coffin of the Western game plan. All the lies and bloody interventions the Americans have offloaded on the world are finally being exposed in the bright light of day. Rules based blah-blah, democracy this, democracy that. "Christian values"! Oh sure, the values of stealing everything that's not nailed down. The criminal, mediocre leadership.
The Vietnamese, Chinese, and the Russians et al are calling out the fiction that the West offers the world, "healing waters". They are the "Dr. Stockmans, demonstrating that the whole narrative is a cover-up, a long-in-the-tooth lie. The Biden and Trump frauds...the Fond-of-Lyins and the blonde 7th grade, disco queen from sad Estonia are the representatives of the end stage of the corrupted waters bidness the West has been peddling-for ever. The piracy...the theft of Russian monies is the denouement. The END. The world and what matters moves on...moves EAST.
An enemy of the people
Play by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People is an 1882 play by Henrik Ibsen about Dr. Thomas Stockmann, who discovers the water in his town's new public baths is contaminated, threatening public health and the local economy. When he tries to expose the truth, the community, led by his own brother, turns against him, branding him an "enemy of the people" for threatening their financial interests, exploring themes of integrity, public opinion, and corruption.
russia is fighting NATO, not just Ukraine
it is a new type of war
you are just a loser troll, trying to make the case that russia is losing the war when it steadily gnawing away at Ukraine's legs
Putin is likely less incompetent and more beholding to his oligarchs. It's a shitshow of a SMO, even if dragging it out like this is causing EU leader puppets to lose their minds.
are you living in the metaverse or its just too much fentanyl? You hate Putin because you love Russia more than him?
Yeah this is a common occurance when GM clones itself….
"Except that the attacks on Russia’s oil and gas have dwindled of late and do not seem to be causing any even remote consternation to Russia’s thriving energy sector"
General Moron may differ....
Some of us actually follow what is happening, while the person who wrote this clearly does not
Strikes on Russia have dramatically ramped up the last ten days and it is only the willfully blind who are ignoring that
"Strikes on Russia have dramatically ramped up the last ten days"
Strikes on Russia remain totally irrelevant, nuisance attacks that have zero strategic relevance.
They do have some slight tactical relevance in that they are causing an increase in Russia's wealth as a result of construction being done on defenses against tiny, strategically irrelevant drones.
For example, if you drive on the various beltways around Moscow a new thing that's popped up in the last year are ten story tall towers with a Pantsir anti-air unit sitting on top. The height gives it better radius of action against very low-flying drones.
They're very well made tower, basically open structure reinforced concrete towers without filler in the walls, and those provided employment and revenue for lots of people and companies. That revenue in turn goes back into the economy for new cars, gadgets, appliances, refurb to second homes and all that stuff.
>For example, if you drive on the various beltways around Moscow a new thing that's popped up in the last year are ten story tall towers with a Pantsir anti-air unit sitting on top.
That's not something to brag about, that is a testament to Putin's utter failure as a Russian leader, not a success.
I know.
Putting up air defences - useless bastard!
No amount of air defense will make you secure.
Only deterrence does that. Or physically eliminating your immediately bordering enemies and pushing the source of threat to a safe distance.
But if you have completely destroyed your deterrence, well, then you have completely destroyed your country's security. And if you refuse to physically eliminate the source of the threat, then you end up like Syria. Which is what Russia has been reduced to thanks to Putin's wise leadership.
Let me get this straight... you really think people reading this sub are so intensely stupid that they don't know there is no difference between Syria and a Russia with 5000+ nukes and a conventional military that is crushing the US and its stooges in Ukraine, and could easily wipe out all of the toy NATO "armies" in Europe?
Russia is a fabulous first world country with truly outstanding quality of life that has the world's fourth largest *real* economy. It's not a failed state like Syria.
In point of fact, good air defense does make you secure, as Russia's air defense makes Russia secure.
"That's not something to brag about, that is a testament to Putin's utter failure as a Russian leader, not a success."
That's propaganda for morons who don't know anything at all about the war between Russia and the US and its stooges.
In point of fact, Russia's outstanding air defense is a key part of Russia's ability to turn the US's European stooges into Gaza-like ruins without even needing to use nuclear weapons.
That air defense is part of Russia having the most combat ready military on the planet. Unlike the idiotic "armies" of the US's European stooges, Russia's military is a both offense and defensive juggernaut, with outstanding combat skills that have been honed through real-life experience.
Putin told the truth when he said that if the Europeans start a war against Russia, Russia is ready to fight that war today. Outstanding air defense around Russia's cities is part of that readiness to fight that war today. There is nothing remote similar around Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, or London, all of which are easy targets.
Heck, for that matter, there isn't anything similar around the key military airports the US and its stooges use in Poland, German, Romania and the Baltics.
A good example of how the US and its stooges are so totally incompetent and unready for a war with Russia are the "air defenses" around Rzeszów-Jasionka airport in Poland, which is the huge hub (runways extended to handle giant US C-5 air freighters) for almost all US and Euro military equipment sent to Kiev.
The US and its stooges are proud of ringing that airport with dozens of Patriot launchers, giving it perhaps the highest density of Patriot systems of any single airport on the planet. But even someone so intensely stupid as to think that the Patriot system has any chance against Russian hypersonics knows that those Patriots are completely useless against low level saturation drone attacks that start by taking out the Patriots.
To deal with such attacks you need what Russia does, the Pantsirs (and similar) on towers thing, and those have to be integrated, as Russia does, within a very sophisticated command and control system that integrates very wide area sensing, AI optimization, and point defenses. There isn't any of that at Rzeszów-Jasionka. That place will be a smoking ruin in the opening minutes of any real war, along with Ramstein in Germany and the other US/stooge military hubs in Europe.
>Russia's outstanding air defense is a key part of Russia's ability to turn the US's European stooges into Gaza-like ruins without even needing to use nuclear weapons.
This is the last time I bother replying to your idiocy.
How is air defense going to strike Europe, and how are conventional strikes going to turn Europe into Gaza?
Gaza itself had the equivalent of 10-15 Hiroshima-sized nukes dropped on it. On that tiny territory. How many medium-range cruise and ballistic missiles do you think Russia has and how much damage will they do? Very little.
The INF treaty made sure about that. And if you had the education and didn't have the brainwashing to see how the long-term strategy is playing out here (defanging Russia with the INF treat was one key component of it), you would see how dire the situation is.
No serious modern war can be fought without nukes.
>But even someone so intensely stupid as to think that the Patriot system has any chance against Russian hypersonics
Nobody cares, because the bet is that Putin is too compromised to do anything and will never strike, thus the fancy superweapons will just collect dust in warehouses until one day the NATO missiles blow them up there.
So far it has been a very accurate bet.
"No serious modern war can be fought without nukes."
by your definition, Ukraine is not "serious" modern warfare
you really should think before typing