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Oct 7, 2023Liked by Simplicius

Good article, Simply. This damn money laundering MUST STOP!!!

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Don't you think that Ru would suffer similar difficulties as the AFU if they try to launch a large scale assault? Mines cut both ways, and the AFU has plenty of standoff assets / air defense which would inflict a high cost on any Russian advance

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Oct 7, 2023Liked by Simplicius

Scalise has blood cancer and quite frankly does not look well at all. Jordan is a talker, not a walker. The DS went after him over a wrestling pre-fabricated scandal and his nephew tragically died in a car accident while in the midst of doing hearings/investigations. Cars like to be used to send messages, just saying. Right after that the man visibly changed. We have slim pickens over here that we can trust or rely on to chose from for Speaker.

Speaking of looking bad, the kid w/the grenade I wonder if the meat grinder has found him yet? I am glad at least for the moment he didn't fuck up and kill himself w/the grenade in the video. The guy in the wheelchair, just crazy the desperation. No one should have to deal w/such. What happened to the chicks in the bars being forced into soldiering?

I just want this war over, it is embarrassing, depressing, and pisses me off.

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Maybe I don’t fully understand this but:

If few Republican RINOs make a deal with (all) Dems they would have a majority to select.....

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Putin said that the West would get bored with the war. Sometimes I think they have waged the war to maximize boredom in order to facilitate this trend.

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Ukrainian nationalists stand behind Zelensky. They have long accused him of not preparing the country for defense and surrendering the territories, knowing about the date of Russia’s offensive in 2022. If Zelensky starts negotiating peace, he will immediately be reminded of this, as well as his corruption, declared a traitor and killed. After this, he will be replaced by a nationalist, a supporter of war until complete victory over Russia. It is safer for Zelensky to leave after losing the election, although even here he may be persecuted as a traitor in court. Or he may die at the hands of “Russian terrorists.” Ukrainian nationalists who are in power in Ukraine are now in a hopeless situation, because it is impossible for them to make concessions to Russia. Due to the fact that the nationalists are absolutely incapable of negotiating, the United States will have to replace them with more adequate politicians.

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One would hope and pray that those controlling Zelensky would see the bleeding obvious and stop the slaughter. The reality is that the crazy Russia hating neo-con / Bolsheviks will encourage NATO to

"do a desperate" giving Russia the opportunity to finish this conflict in short order.

Thank you Mr Putin for your tolerance.

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Still claiming the war will drag on into 2025, I see. Good luck with that.

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Biden is going to find a workaround. It won't be a lucrative (5% for the big guy), but war finds a way.

https://askeptic.substack.com/p/russia-ukraine-reports-2023-10-06

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What are these acronyms

- RFC, etc. ???

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Oct 7, 2023·edited Oct 7, 2023Liked by Simplicius

Here's a crazy thought. Jordon gets the job. Cuts off funding. The war's lost anyway, but now Joe can blame the Republicans. The American public doesn't care either way, but the media will beat the drum. The war, Ukraine, Taiwan, Russia, China, the border, crime--all faux issues. Nobody gives a shit. What the public really cares about is the economy--which sucks, no matter what the fake statistics say. Yeah you can get a job, you just can't pay for groceries, pay for a house, pay your healthcare premiums, or afford college. But neither party will touch that one--would piss off the donors who actually run the show. (We obviously need more military spending!) Business (and I mean Big Business)as usual. As for the war, good call. Drag it out, watch Ukraine disintegrate, build up your forces beyond overwhelming and walk in with flags flying and bands playing--the Rhineland, Sudetenland, and Auschluss rolled into one. Pretty girls throwing flowers and Peace in our Time! Can't wait!

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"Not enough has been made of Shoigu’s nonchalant statement at the last high command meeting, that the Russian Armed Forces plan is to finish the SMO by 2025:"

Based on the translated subtitles I would say Shoigu was referring to the modernization and training of the Russian army, and not to the end of the SMO. Maybe this was meant as a subtle reminder for the collective West that Russia is on schedule in its preparations for the transition from proxy war to the real thing.

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Hi Simplicius,

Outstanding summary, I completely agree, aside from the risk of risk that NATO decide out of desperation they need to get involved, I see absolutely no reason for the Russian Federation Armed Forces RFAF, to scale up and rampage, you have poignantly and directly enunciated the rationale for the RFAF simply going about its business, it has become, thanks to outstanding leadership, the support of the Russian people, it’s own self belief in its systems, commands and far superior weaponry across literally every metric when measured against the fraud that we now know was the U.S led, West and NATO faux military industrial complex MIC, veneer of superior weaponry and tech, been found wanting on so many metrics as aforementioned.

In other words they have been all bull and bluster, nothing unusual there, it’s been the modus operandi of this group of criminals, psychopaths and thieves since they blustered, bull shitted and fluffed their way into that which they obviously had hankered for so long, a stoush and biff against Russia.

Albeit, it would be entirely appropriate to add that by virtue of their contracting out to their patsy, oops, proxy, the Nazi scum in Ukraine, that in reality, like the Russian Federation MOD, they had also likely “gamed” the likely outcome, unsure or uncertain notwithstanding the result from a far inferior computer model to that had the Russian MOD, being the psychotic narcissists that they are, they were so intoxicated with the prospect of this long awaited clash, they just had to proceed, I mean why on earth would you not when per Straussian/Brezinski Neocon doctrine the opportunity of a lifetime beckons? Well, we know the answer to that question now, because per their likely gamed outcomes, despite the rhetoric and misguided belief, the roll of the dice, they have lost, not only lost but been shellacked, rheemed up the old gungaroo as we would say down here in the lower South Pacific, the lower South Island of New Zealand, yep, the RFAF’s have pummelled them, fair polished their rings after bending them over and ramming the way superior van, (Vantage) fair up their ring.

It is so good to see, even more so the sober attitude of your staunch yet strong leaders such as Medvedev, the ideal bad cop to the Good Cop, Putin, routine, I pray for humanity’s sake, you take your time, turning the fiscal and psychological screws on these Western E.U/U.S, U.K blowhards, Show them how a real nation fights.

Bad enough Russia was called upon to save humanity WW2, now your being weighed upon to save us all again from the scourge of American exceptionalism, from the odious Rules (Theirs) Based Order” literally from themselves when all is said and done, the Russian nation stands in my view Proud, Strong, Unbreakable, with huge reserves of Belief, Courage, support for each other and the nation, it’s military and crucially it’s leadership, contrast that with the debacle that exists in the West as we grapple with what is a woman, men giving birth, pro nouns, homos running rampant with their trans mates across all and were for so long we’ll established societal norms, we live in an age where the 1.5% requires we bend a knee and kow tow to their psychological impairments, at least we know that the U.S Society of Registered Psychologists defined long ago sexual dysphoria as a definable mental illness, but then as we know Santa Klaus (not) Schwab and his sidekick Yuval Noah Harari. perpetrate and peddle this nonsense along with DEI, ESG crapola as a means to distract us from their real despotic and tyrannical Fascist agenda, look there not here, over there, not at this, argue about and with those in authority about your kid wanting a sex change, after you find out yourself, it being legally kept from you, as such we in the West are living in a surreal universe up is down, white is red, black is yellow, Hunka an SS scumbag is a national hero of the nation that fought to end his kind but then gave he and 1999 others like him safe harbor and refuge, indeed access to a nation they fought against with all the perks it entailed was easier to obtain for that scum than Jews, homosexuals, intellectually handicapped, academics, and all other types persecuted by his ilk, that is the society we live in, where they wish through the JUSTIN Castro’s, Christy (I’m a descendant of a Nazi whom I worship)Freeland of Canada, Blink and you miss him Blinkin, Rake Sullivan, Jabber the Hutts daughter and Cookie Monster, Nuland, of the U.S together all of these other clapping seals, sheep all, including the repulsive Van der Leyer who in a recent speech insinuated Re: Nuclear Weapons, she hoped Russia would not use them again, implying Nagasaki and Hiroshima was the result of Russian action, sick, they all are contriving to expunge the WW2 history, NAZi good, to be embraced, Russia Bad, worse… it’s pernicious and sick, evil, but then we are as we know fighting against true evil.

The most recent bout of handwringing and outrage resulting from a supposed missile strike, the deadliest against Ukrainian civilians, I mean go figure, when confit was a case of laugh out loud, they really think we are dumb, someone ought tell Budunov, Podoliak and he that banned the use of the letter “Z”, the Guevara, Castro wannabe in green fatigues, the Nazi cross dressing pervert, Elinsky, that the world is tired of he and his T.V gangs lies, manipulation and propaganda, that they are frauds and criminals whose time is up, they’ve all but reached their nadr, if they had any decency they would make the call and save what they can of that Nazi shit hole, but then that wouldn’t satisfy us either, we want total defeat, denazification, the U.S, NATO, U.K, E.U defeated, solidly, their noses rubbed in it, this time nothing left for the other side, give them a taste of their own a la Japan WW2, Versailles WW1, it’s about time, the world demands it, without which nothing will change, absolute annihilation is the only language they will understand, these timid weak, bullying psycho bastards, all of them, then, maybe just maybe, the World and every sovereign nation on the planet will be finally rid of these criminals, these fools, finally, it’s what I pray for and believe will result, god is on our side, he like oursehas had a real guts full of having to witness their evil, enough really is enough….

Should they be dumb enough to go to War, including nuclear as I read the other day, a former NATO strategist advocating for limited nuclear conflict, well, all I can say is that again they’ll lose, they know it, more so Russias successfully testing its nuclear powered Cruise Missile Nuke, its upgraded Sarmat Satan Hypersonic Projectile, both now in service and production, something that will allow Russia to dominate the next 30 - 40 years before they catch up… period, hence nothing to fear, be not afraid, I know God is on our side, definitely in this one.

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Thanks for a great article once again! Strange how the truth has a way of staying the same - nothing has changed - it was and always has been a war of attrition. Eternal escalation can only happen when you have money,manpower, material and logistics. All of which are dwindling by the day for ones side and accrueing for the other.

If you have to 'learn' on the job about your shortcomings...and study a war that is already raging, then it is a bit late. From NATO with love...

https://cepa.org/transcripts/key-conversation-general-christopher-cavoli/

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Interesting how a single House rep can bring the whole DC to a full stop.

This is what happened to S. Vietnam. One day funding wasn't passed and the next day embassy in Saigon was evacuating.

Someone give a medal to Florida representative Matt Gaetz!

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