We’re in the “lull in the action” phase of the conflict, as both sides posture and maneuver to get a bead on the other both politically and diplomatically.
There is a very realistic such scenario -- open nuclear use on Russia (not on Moscow, on military and industrial objects), the Kremlin folds with the excuse that it is better to take that loss than to kill hundreds of millions. And the alt-media will praise Putin as the savior of the world.
Of course then it won't be the last such use, but at this point there is no reason to think that the policy of turning the other cheek in the name of preserving the wealth of the oligarchs does not extend to nukes.
After all Toropets happened already, even if it was covert and not acknowledged.
I think Russia would not retaliate, even if Moscow burned to ashes. For Putin, it would be a chance to show his "christian values" again. For the surviving Russians, that would be a possibility to eat in Mc Donald's once when everything is rebuilt.
But, seriously. Russia placed itself in the corner. It has no military options but to attack Europe.
It has no options but to nuke Europe to zero, not just attack
If it attacks conventionally, that will achieve nothing more but the official enlargement of the current shitshow to include the whole perimeter from the North Pole to the Mediterranean. Likely some subs and ships will attack Russia from the Pacific too.
You cannot knock a determined opponent out conventionally these days, it's just not physically possible.
Russia doesn't need to attack Europe to defeat Europe. In case you haven't noticed who runs the EU and most of the member nations, Europe is defeating itself.
Not to mention the energy crisis ... you can not win a war by stand/off weaponry ( aka. what US/EU alreadydoes trough UA ). That is why drone warfare is the "big hit" now in EU politics and funding. But also the only thing they are capable of at all. So ... no matter the damage to RF, the waiting game is in the end in favour of them ... not so much to the European population, and the dictatorship that comes after will be its downfall, yet inevitable, if the EU pushes this kind of policyes further. Also, even the drone card is riddled by coruption as hell, so it wont be as capable as they flashily present.
Give me a break, Elena, that's beneath you, even for extreme sarcasm. That Finland changes an internal law means nothing until there are moves to actually put nukes on their territory. Then we'll see what Russia does. They might surprise you and me and everybody else.
That's one of the messages of Russia's intervention in Ukraine. Russia invaded, applying "military-technical" means in the famous phrase, and it has killed over 500,000 of the Nazi regime's troops.
Finland amending its constitution is typical eurobabble. That is like discussing the latest table settings at EU meetings. It's just talk. If Finland advances that beyond talk, then they'll get one warning, just like Russia's ultimatum before it invaded Ukraine, and then we'll see what Russia will do.
An ultimatum from Russia is the real shot across the bow, not prissy maneuvers from babbling fools who elect the likes of Sanna Marin.
Probably the one time I disagree with you, one warning? Years of warnings since Putin told NATO what was going to happen in 2007 and attempts to resolve the Banderan problem diplomatically.
Finland is a wholly owned subsidiary of the WEF for now so I agree with JG. Placing nukes in Finland is not only bad for Finland, it is bad for the US strategically. We are stretched and the next few years it is not going to get better.
I don't consider 39 speed boats to be a massive flotilla or a credible offensive threat. However, they are present and either laying mines or enforcing the closure, they are completing their tasks.
No doubt Hegseth told my Mushroom-in-Chief that our mine sweepers, all four of them, are clearing the strait from somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
you have no idea what speedboats are operating or what they are doing
All you have is the propaganda bullshit you read on the internet daily.
when will you finally learn how you are being played??????
ALL WARS ARE PROPAGANDA WARS besides being banker wars
god, people are stupid, they actually believe in "Fake" Intellligence, and the crap they see / hear / read on the internet, and what politicians say.... and of course hollywood films.... and bla bla bla
fucking Clown World on display, alright... in the comments section.
that is just pathetic
nobody is capable of saying, "I don't know," or "we will just have to wait and see."
The speedboats are useful for a limited purpose(s). Iran's real threat is that it can provide air and surface cover for them from land. That's why there are no US minesweepers or their support craft anywhere near the gulf.
The SMO began to bring the Banderans to negotiate. It worked, the Banderan Kapo reneged and who gives a shit if Finland votes to accept nukes? Putin holds the ultimate veto.
Ukraine controlled most of the Donbas, which was recognized by Russia as being Ukrainian.
I can see only tell you what Putin said Russia's objectives were in his speech on 24 February, 2022; "It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force. At the same time, we have been hearing an increasing number of statements coming from the West that there is no need anymore to abide by the documents setting forth the outcomes of WW 2, ... How can we respond to that?"
I still clearly recall an event when Finland faced off the Soviets over the fate of a smaller island, the Winter War. It did not work out very well for them although they fought heroically.
Just listen to the likes of Trump, Bessent, Blinken, Nuland, Graham, Clinton, FondOfLying, Kallas, Starmer, Makron, Merz, Rutte,…. You think these are sane people? You think they are going to listen to reason? You think they are going to surrender? You think they don’t mind losing face?
Think again. It doesn’t matter what Russia does except total destruction, but otherwise they will never ever quit. They are safe, they don’t care about the hundreds of millions dying.
They are sane and they listen to reasons but they dont care. They will not surrender and above it all lose face. Evil has many faces and you are staring at it.
That is a common reaction, "just get it done". There is more to it than that. Hell, I would like to see Trump, or who ever is running this shit show, to instigate a ground invasion. The sooner the US military collapses, the sooner the US dollar is no longer the reserve currency and the money dries up to fund all these forever wars.
you are just some pogue in momma's basement shitposting about stuff you are not qualified to talk about...and calling Putin a wuss is not gonna change that, boy
And Russia did not win that exchange in retrospect -- yes, it won both wars, but in the end barely any Finns died in the 1939-1945 period compared to the millions of Russians killed by the Finnish and German Nazis. Sure, in the end Finland was cut off from access to the Arctic, and lost some territories in the south too, but it was not completely eliminated as a latent threat as it should have been.
Dear GM, every comment of yours I read, wether it's concerning Ukraine, the Middle East or anything else, always comes down to one message:
They (referring either to Russia, or China, or Iran, or another Global South Country) should have killed everyone and everything, they didn't, that was a mistake and they better should start killing each and everyone of their opponnents rather today than tomorrow - ideally by nuking every western capital and financial hub.
Now I wonder, is this just a peculiar Lust of Death and Blood on your side? Is it trolling? Is it a man/woman deeply depressed by the world, who has therefore turned to Doomsday-thinking? Or is it in order to provoke people either to agree to murderous ideas or in order to appal them?
I am genuinely curious since I read your comments for months now - sometimes they include interesting thoughts, I like to contemplate about -and really wonder what's up with you. Because, in all earnest, if you do think murdering every opponnent is a viable idea, I'd say you should do some digital-detox, maybe enjoy nature and refresh yourself. It doesn't seem healthy to me, to think so negatively.
Why is it that Circassians and Crimean Tatars are not arming themselves with nukes and going on the warpath against Russia, but Germans, Poles. Finns, etc. are?
I wonder what the difference is between those groups...
Have you considered to look at the real owners of Germans, Finns, Poles, et cet.? No? Why?
What’s wrong with Sikorsky-Applebaum? With Ursula wonder lying? Stubb, Sanda Marin?
A suggestion for you: look for a meaning of the word “compradors” and ponder for a moment for whose interest the above mentioned compradors have been acting.
Money lenders, mega thieves, mega war profiteers, and such are at the core of highly militant force that needs constantly more loot. It is not about nations. This is about supranational criminal cartel of subhumans of Tony Blair and Ellison/Kushner kind.
The average German does not differ from Ursula in his view of Russia as much as you might think.
The average German is also just as much a parasite who has been living way beyond his mean off resource extraction from the rest of the world, primarily Russia and Eastern Europe, as Ursula
It was also not Hitler who set whole villages on fire in Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia in the 1940s, it was the average German doing that. With great joy.
Zero mercy, burn it all with fire, they have earned it all, 100%.
Yes. Americans and Jews always tend to eliminate the opponent entirely and forever. That is how they do it and that is why they are superior today. Everybody knows that they are not only willing, but eager to kill.
"but it was not completely eliminated as a latent threat as it should have been."
You're absolutely right about that, but in making that comment you're just adding to the seemingly endless list of ways in which the Bolsheviks and their Soviet grandee inheritors totally screwed up Russia and Eurasia.
Stalin had Finland totally under his thumb, exactly where he wanted it and without any threat whatsoever to the USSR. Same with Ukraine, the artificial Soviet Socialist Republic he created by gluing together some pieces he took from surrounding territories. None of that mattered with a guy like Stalin in charge and he knew that.
But the safety of that system depended up on a single individual who was perfectly willing to kill tens of millions of his own people as well as anybody else to avoid any danger to his system. That's not a system that can survive the death of such an individual. In fact it's not a system that could even survive while that individual was alive, because the operational terror required to enforce it affected the calculations of the very people who were supposed to implement that terror.
There's reason to believe that Beria poisoned Stalin when he realized Stalin was about to swap him out for the next henchman/executioner in line, just like how he swapped out Yezhov for Beria. Yezhov died crying and begging for mercy just before he was shot in the head with a pistol. Beria didn't want to end that way so he poisoned Stalin. (Ultimately that didn't help as Khruschev with Zhukov's help engineered a coup to arrest and kill Beria given the plotter's fear that Beria would replace Stalin and use the same terror methods against them. Beria also died crying and begging for mercy just before he was shot in the head with a pistol.)
But from the Politburo on down the USSR was fed up with Stalin's ways. That had to change and it did, first in a softer USSR led by Khruschev and the Brezhnev, and then ultimately through a line of increasingly weak leaders who sought a more modern, humane solution to the many intractable problems the Bolsheviks and Stalin left in their wake.
So far, Putin has by far the best track record in rebuilding Russia despite the almost insurmountable structural problems, like all those fake countries created by Stalin and incipient cancers like Finland, left behind by the Communists. So far he's managed to keep the country growing, developing far beyond where it should be given the massive destruction wrought by Communism, with a high quality of life and development better than Western Europe. That's not a bad track record.
How long he can keep up that balancing act while Nazi cancer and delusional rage metastasize in Europe is an open question. Could it be we'll have a limited nuclear war to clean up messes like Finland left behind by the Communists? Maybe. Could that limited war escalate to massive exchanges with the US? With a guy like Trump in power anything can happen. Time will tell.
Finland had a 90 year treaty with the Soviets and then Russia. Flushed it away in 2022. No problem. There is no reason why the Duchy of Finland can't be resurrected and once again made a vassal state of Russia.
Originally Stalin kept psycho bubbling about a single island to set up defenses for Saint Petersburg from the Baltic Sea. After the Finns refused and spanked him real hard he refused to take an anger management course and took major territories. Actually, I was surprised that he left off the Finns with those losses.
That is not what happened. There were islands involved, but it was about much more than that.
Stalin was extremely concerned by the fact that Finland was aligning itself with the Germans (and the West more generally, not only the Germans -- at the time Stalin was afraid of a war with the combined West). The border was running just 20 km from Leningrad thanks to yet another idiotic goodwill gesture, this time by the Tsar in 1812, who transfered Viborg, which had been part of Russia since 1721, to Finland. Kind of like giving Crimea to Ukraine within the USSR. But then Finland went independent in 1918 and the first thing it did was to invade Russia to get more land, multiple times. That's the thanks you get in geopolitics for being nice.
So Stalin sees the growing threat and he spends all of 1939 in futile attempts to move the border further away from Leningrad, by offering them twice as much land in exchange further north in Karelia. A very generous offer. But they refused. And that left Stalin no choice but to take it by force in the Winter War.
Given how Leningrad barely survived a couple years later after the border had been moved by force, he was 100% vindicated in his demands and actions.
That's good! Because the way Finland has behaved, sooner or later nuclear weapons will be arriving on its territory. So when that happens, it will all be legal, no reason to complain about it.
All this just recreates the Iron Curtain setting but along Karelia instead of Germany. Finns will do nothing with these nukes because whatever damage they could inflict they known they will disappear in minutes.
To push back the border west of Donbas hills was much more important because that's from the southern step that Russia is more vulnerable. With USA controlling Donbass, Ukraine would have become a giant parking lot for divisions meant to launch raids to Moscow, to the Volga, etc, German style So the take-over of Donbas was needed.
What leadership in MSK must finally decide is to hit Finland and Estonia with drones, put some factory on fire. Just put a trizub on the drones, tell they lost their way. No article 5 will be triggered for this but it will calm the Chuds.
Russia will certainly retaliate if hit "by nuclear weapons," they have made that abundantly clear over the last few years
Any nuclear nation would do the same...there is really no other course of action except surrender
I, too, as a world leader, would order an equivalent response if so attacked. I would have that responsibility to my country and people... Anything less would be the action of a traitor.
You, perhaps, would stand by and let an armed robber enter your house and murder your family... i would not
We do, after all, have a presence there. If it weren’t for the European influence, we wouldn’t have Karamzin, we wouldn’t have Pushkin, we wouldn’t have Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Tolstoy, or even Dostoevsky, who as you know, was rather skeptical about Europe. Fair enough. So, Europe is the source of all evils, especially for Russia, both moral and military. Five hundred years of monstrous history, and even more, dating back to the time of Alexander Nevsky. We must put an end to our European history, and those who are eager to return to Europe, to their mansions or their capital, must be removed from our elite or expelled. However, some of them have already fled thanks to the military operation in Ukraine. But it is not worth continuing it indefinitely and wasting our best men on trying to persuade Western Europe to see reason. We must start striking back.
Sergey Karaganov: We have hoped for reconciliation for far too long; there was, and perhaps still is, a very strong pro-European sentiment in our society and among our elite, although I must emphasize that, in the current circumstances, pro-European sentiment and Western-leaning attitudes are a sign of foolishness and moral duplicity. So, we now need to act decisively, realizing that the EU must be stopped. If it is not stopped, there will be a major war, which will lead to the destruction of Europe anyway, but we do not need to lose our best people and risk our cities for the sake of the EU. It must be stopped. It has broken free from its chains once again, as has happened many times in history.
Agree. I’ve been following Judge Napolitano and realised that all of the he invites have lost track of what is really going on. His chats have mostly become talks about the madness of Trump. Same phenomenon as the perennial blaming of WWII on the Austrian’s peculiarities. It avoids looking at what is really going on. No one seems to realise that if Hitler didn’t exist or had been killed there would still be a long list of wannabes starting with Goebbels, Goering, Hess, etc., etc. And it’s always the people that ignore Marx that fall into this trap.
The Duran is even worse. Napolitano does that a lot too, but there is at least some excuse given his background. But for people from Europe, Greece especially, there is no excuse to be discussing the situation from the perspective of how the monstrous crimes that Trump himself commits are wrecking Trump's presidency. If the it is discussed at all, how Iran is to win the war kinetically takes 5% of the time, the other 95% is lamenting how regrettable for Trump and America Trump's actions are...
Wait a minute, whose side are you on? Truth and justice and the victims, or the side of the new Hitler and the new Nazi Germany? It's not clear...
Napolitano has had that problem for quite a while.
some of the best pundits on the internet have simply gone silent because they realize there is nothing to say until the situation in the Gulf has worked itself out.
People like Napolitano, Johnson, MacGregor, Mearsheimer, Ritter.. they make their money off their daily updates, and when there is nothing new to say they are desperate to keep the "conversation" going, so they start grasping at straws.
Even Sachs is guilty of this. They just can't shut up or admit that we have to wait and see.
Don't you think that an admiral resigning/fired in the middle of a disastrous war for the U.S. is an important sign of the status within the lunatic asylum?
I would be interested to read an assessement by Simplicius, how popular Mr. Putin still is. I can't believe that Russia still hasn't achieved its aims after four years of war. Where are the millions of soldiers willing to fight for Russia? Where are the Russian "Wunderwaffen"? Where are the military geniuses of the Russian army? How comes that millions and millions of Ukrainians are dead or forced to fight - but there are hardly advances in the Donbass? How comes that Kiew is the most popular tourist destination for western politicians? I mean: Who would voluntary visit Gaza without a death wish? But Kiew, Lwow? Is there a war? Did I miss something? Must be great fun living there... How many Russians have to die in Donbass or even in the Russian heartland til Mr. Putin understands that this is not a war betweein Russia and Ukraine, but Russia and NATO.
I see how bravely the Iranians smash the US forces and their allies and I wonder what American assets are directing the war in the Kremlin. I wonder how long does it take til the first mutinies will happen in the Russian army. If Stalin would have fought the same way, the Great Patriotic War would be still lasting and the Russians would be near the Polish border.
I can't believe that the Russians don't feel betrayed by these morons in Moscow. This war is existencial for both sides. If the Russians win the whole Western system must be re-invented and a lot of politicians will fall. Defeat is not an option for the West. But the same applies for Russia. The revenge of the West against Russia will be cruel if Russia loses. See Gaza, see Lebanon, see the girl's school in Mandib - that will be the future of Russia (and China) if they lose.
I'm not voting for "nukes to London, Washington or Berlin". Suicide should be prevented. But some Oreshniks at Rheinmetall, NATO baracks at the Ukrainian border or the downing and killing of ISR-flights and - crews would be a good start.
At the moment the Ukraine war is for the West like "Call of Duty": You have to pay for play - but you won't suffer if you lose. Westerners should finally know what war means. Sorry: Russia has the second strongest army - in Ukraine. Russia emanates weakness, not strenght.
The most recent ratings, for April 13-19, were released today.
Putin's popularity is at 65%.
Not 80%.
This is a huge drop, it hasn't been this low since the 2012-13 period.
And we all know it is not reallt 65% because a lot of people are afraid to say what they really think.
Also, Zyuganov the other day gave a speech in the Duma in which he said that if serious measures are not taken immediately to correct course, by the end of the year a new 1917 can be expected. Yes, he said exactly that. Which is hugely significant -- 1917 is what the current Russian elites fear the most, and it has been a taboo topic, Zyuganov, who has been a loyal bootlicker of United Russia for decades, went there.
Kiev is the recipient of pallet loads of money. Every one who is any one needs to visit on the off chance of a potential "business " deal, or two. Don't forget Ukraine's National Anthem (royalties owed to Abba ).
"I see how bravely the Iranians smash the US forces and their allies"
really? You call blowing up some overseas bases on foreign soil with low casualties (yes, a few hundred casualties would still be "low" to a country of 350 million) "smashing US Forces?"
Yes. that is real news. It shows us how deeply Russia is defeated. From nuclear launch to detonation in Sankt Petersburg in just 20 seconds.
Russia has sunken, defeated and desperate. It waits to be plundered and dismembered. It lost all escalation capacity. In his incompetence, Putin considered Europeans to be rational players. But under the mask of technology, academia, business and culture, there is the essence of European spirit - the pirate's will to plunder and kill. There is no difference between elite and plebs. The unconscious dream about blonde sex slaves - Epstein style is too strong. Or going to the East to conquer and plunder. Is that not the real European dream for 1000 years, only partially modified when "our boys" had to go to Africa and Asia and rob brown people. And Russia.... Since Peter the Great pursuing euro fanaticism... Russian children learning French, learning to imitate European culture and omitting to build their own. Now the price has to be payed for centuries of cultural submission.
Russia and China could have defeated the Empire but their elites were desperate to eat ice cream in Toscany. The highest point of these two civilization and nation states is full servitude to big, wonderful elites of USA, EU and Israel.
Donald Trump is big winner here. His madness, real or not was calculated. Anglo Saxons know how to frighten the slaves, being that Slavs o Chinese.
There are no axes of resistance. Malaysia and Indonesia are grateful to be allowed to take part in another anti China blockade.
Iran and NK are today the only nations in the world still really resisting. The reason is that their elites still have some other ideological goals, far above the mentioned ice cream in Toscany. Without repression, no country can be independent of the West as the West can always buy slaves among the population. Only those afraid to lose their heads shall pick loyalty to their own country above the availability of Coca Cola and Snickers. Individual freedom is bullshit or a fake teen age trip.
However, We must admit that Anglo Saxon elites managed to create an imaginary world that most of the world's population still consider superior. That is what we call the American dream.
Only who is pro USA/EU/srael is Vucic and his SNS "elite" that get endless stream of money from the west and free rein to do whatever he want in exchange to keep Serbia vassal state.
When time comes, we will f. the westerners and Vucic. Youth of Serbia do not want Coca Cola and other w. sh.... We will not allow EU to dig Lithium for drone batteries from Serbia soil, we will not allow USA to destroy our monuments of NATO aggression. West own us in blood!! Just like Chines said: USA own us in blood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LSHMp2xyA for destroying and killing chines in Chines embassy in Belgrade in 1999. Chines f.... man who "provides old maps to pentagon so USA bomb Chines embassy by mistake" - they kill him on anniversary of bombing, in front of his house.
Finns also increased reserve recall and mobilization age limits to 65 years earlier this year. Retired military officers can be recalled with no upper age limit.
The Swedish-Belgian globalist madman Stubb seems to wish to have large amount of Finns killed, well no wonder, he has been quoted saying that he feels more Belgian than Finnish. His actual Swedish first name is 'Caj-Göran' but he prefers Alexander because name like Caj-Göran would likely not have gotten anyone elected in Finland...
That's why I like TASS they mention all the stories. How can we have a functioning democracy when none of our MSM function as anything but propaganda dispensers.
How could this happen? John Phelan was a major contributor to Orange.
There were plenty of people kicked around and out who wholeheartedly supported Orange Man prior. As far as the extreme risks involved with the US Navy sailing into the PERSIAN GULF or landing on Persian soil, those are fairly obvious. I would not blame any military leader second guessing Orange Man for being pushed into absurdly difficult acts there. Recall the two C-130s and the sad fate of related hardware recently. Word is that Orange was hysterical and he had to be locked out of the situation room at the (Formerly) White House so he was certainly not micromanaging the action at that moment. But the pressure on the secretary of peace, etc. was there.
Another issue is the unstable behavior of Orange and/or his handlers. Erratic actions might scare some nations for a while but Persia seems to have passed this period behind, sorry. When Israhell and the US attacked they gave Iran the ultimate tool to fight back and Iran was not shy to use that tool, Hormuz. To break the Persian control on Hormuz might be and extremely difficult military act, hard to predict if it can be done at all. Keep in mind: In a war where one party is forced to fight with $1 million missiles against $20,000 drones unpredictability will always be a factor.
Trump has loyalty to no one. Kiss his butt or face his wrath.
I like Iran's chances. The US military doesn't have any real allies, except Israel who only does bombings and assassinations. Any boots will be American, any ships damaged will be American, and of course, the money is American.
It's a very long supply line through few friendly places, the American people and soldier's hearts are not in it, and most of the world see's Trump as dangerously insane.
I agree with with you, Jeannie, regarding Trump's non-loyalty. If someone is his golfing buddy, a favored interviewer, longtime business associate--those ties can dissolve with one 'misstep' by the person. A sentence or two spoken that is not in full support of T can be cause for ouster, ridicule, and larger punishments. And T is an elephant, for he does not forget the missteps, and may continue to stomp on the offender years later.
No wonder people in the White House walk on eggshells around him. He is an impulsive, angry, intolerant, explosive bully. He demands things his way...or else. Remember the story about Donigula being unhappy with the footwear of male WH workers? He bought each one a pair of black Florsheim oxfords--all the same style--in order to please his eye. I am sure the recipients wear the shoes to work each day. They don't want to be subjected to a tirade or a firing.
Dear Jeannie, You are most likely French and that is why you are trying to insult my beloved president. He does have loyalty toward Billionaire Republican mega-donor Miriam Adelson and related gangs because he received 250 million from the fine lady.
This is a case when one man’s generous donor becomes another man’s buyer of America. During his first election Trump enjoyed a barely covered push from the US media that was literally priceless for his campaign. One goal of the whole Trump show was to secure the way for the full genocide of the Palestinians and the drive for Greater Israel.
And now, over a dozen high ranking scientists were executed at the very front of the general public. Just to make sure that various alternative energy technologies will not undermine the position of fossil fule hegemony Trump is building. Trump is pushing the West toward chaos, working hand in hand with Bibi.
yeah the way Trump is behavng and the results of it - makes one wonder - what were Trump's goals when he ran for president ? Was it perhaps the election campaign and the big win. Did he - does he - what does he want ?
And it will be the whole world that suffers economically from the actions of the draft dodging PEDO POTUS and his Zionist overlords. The US is not escaping the consequences this time. Their fake debt economy is going to blow up. The rats know it and have been fleeing the ship.
'Orange was hysterical and he had to be locked out of the situation room...' < during the spat with Gen. Caine (as per last week's infamous Larry Johnson interv.).
My informer stated Orange completely lost control when the two lost pilots’ case was discussed and they had to lock him out. I just wish thy made a video of the event.
without ever having had any military or pilotry training T might be utterly unable to actually imagine what these actions entail in reality. however, based on some of Simp's sources it seems Big Money, by way of the billionaires controlling the media are getting more determined to nudge T towards the side-exit.
mary-lou; my guess is that at some point the expense incurred by "Reputational Damage" will become irrecoverable in either the short, medium or long term. Too many toes get stepped on and folk will vote with their feet and be busy making alternative arrangements. We're seeing this happen already with the (Soccer/Football) World Cup due to Kick Off in a couple of Months which is in danger of becoming a big flop.
We should send the Army to get a full copy of his library. If the libtards call it a crusade I will call it the delivery of a refund request for our investment.
The U.S. Navy is estimated to control roughly 1,000–1,100 nuclear warheads, primarily deployed on Ohio‑class ballistic‑missile submarines. The other two components of America's "Nuclear Triad," are the Air Forces strategic bombers and the land-based ICBMs. All told, it's about 5,550 nukes in Uncle Sam's arsenal.
However, this Triad's effectiveness is not absolute: it faces high costs, aging infrastructure, and strategic debates about whether this Cold War–era structure is still optimal for 21st century threats or the ability to keep world peace.
My pleasure, Ann. PS American defense--it's paying for and building a military that was useful in 1941-1945--but, not today. We are spending close to a trillion USD and POTUS wants billions more spent. On costly, obsolete weapons.
Meantime, countries like Iran studied 21 century warfare and needs no navy, no air force--just a small Army and a huge supply of drones and missiles. These are all built underground beneath granite mountains with many entrances and exits. (They learned this all from North Korea.) Impenetrable.
Iran has succeeded in "blinding" the US military by attacking costly radar stations in the Middle East which cost America billions. POOF!
Recent examples: US Navy in the Iran war just sent up an unmanned MQ-4C Triton drone and the Iranians promptly shot it down with pinpoint accuracy using tracking data co-ordinates with a cheap missile.That one drone cost US taxpayers $238,000,000.00. This Iran war will bleed American finances white.
yes. I'm Canadian but we're going to feel it here too. Very worried because I have farm animals and am living on a pension. Wish they would grab Trump and impeach him. btw - I heard John Phelan - Naval Secretary - is in the Epstein Files.
Yorktown Naval Weapons Station stored the nukes and loaded them aboard carriers when they went out on patrol. For some years now that practice was stopped. Nuclear torpedoes, dumb bombs, and conventional munitions.
We have no idea what is on board now. I don't know what the 'W' that just left town was loaded with at Yorktown before leaving. Those are not news items.
so the Naval Personnel is trained in handling and embarking on a nuclear strike but they don't know ahead of time I'm sure all those boats and subs are fully loaded. I hate the American Government. You know what I find the stupidest thing IN THE WORLD is that a cheap and lowlife politician gets into office for 4 years and has the power to use those things. The weapons should be under the control of the military and the military only. It should be a completely separate entity from the political side of government. Same with the financial sector. Will we ever learn ?
I've heard both those things. Trump wants to nuke Iran. Satanyajew wants to nuke Iran. Russia and China and Iran all know this. What do you think will happen ?
the hazards of nuclear warfare were gamed out by RAND corporation in the late 50s.
NOBODY WINS in a general nuclear exchange
submarine nukes win the game... you might be able to hit your opponent's land forces but there is no way you can hope to take out all your opponents subs, and once they launch there is little chance of stopping the incoming
the name of the game since the 50s has been how to win using CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS and all these little kiddies hyperventilating about nuclear wars are just that - immature little propagandized children
Everyone's perception of reality is the right one. Reality is what we devise - and for those lacking an independent spirit, reality is what our elites devise for us - they leave no one behind. 😎
The war is always unpredictable. The single operations like few months back in VZ are a different beast. Not sure they tried but it seems they did at the beginning of the year to do a regime change but that did not succeed. Obviously they could not find Iranian version of Ukrainian Azov faction that would go along their plans to control the country. I guess the cultural differences were too big.
Anyone else wondering why there is no refutation of Trump's messaging that we are "clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz"? Best I can tell there are ZERO US naval ships "in the strait". If there were, it would be shooting ducks on a pond for Iran. And if Iran is unable or unwilling to do so, then all the bluster and talk about where this war might be headed is for naught. This is a very important point and one in which I wish Simp would have analyzed in this post... Chip
Phelan convinced Trump to go for a huuuuge battleship configuration in a high profile manner. The estimated cost using Phelan's approach could have built a dozen destroyers instead. Phelan wanted to use conventional purchasing arrangements instead of reviewing a possible new approach to objectives, design and construction.
Hegseth wanted to change the entire ethos of the American military not more of the same only bigger. Once Hegseth convinced Trump that he had got bad advice from Phelan that left the Presidency exposed as a result, Trump told Hegseth ....you are the Secretary of War, do what you have to...... Hegseth won the pissing match.
We are seriously saying because Iran has some speed boats that this means their navy remains almost fully intact and a potential threat as if Trump simply lied and their ships were not sent to the ocean floor?
Agree. It's their minisubs and fast attack boats which are essential to their layered A2/AD strategy for the Strait of Hormuz.
Former SEAL and author Matt Bracken explains why naval surface combatants are obsolete in the 21st Century for projecting power and the death knell of gunboat diplomacy sounded a century ago.
I tried to get a loan from the Fed so I can ‘Upgrade To Founding'. They sent me back a polite note saying that zero loan will be issued because I am posting on a politically incorrect site. In addition they told me to pay my $160,000 + student loan in case I engage in any activity that produces income. I told them that presently I am standing by a freeway exit with 2 bags of oranges to sell which I purchased from the nearest supemarket and as soon as I make a sale I will immediately notify them.
My original plan called for buying an apple for a quarter, shining it and selling it for fifty cents and to repeat the process indefinitely until my grandpa dies and leaves me a few million dollars. He said he has no plans to die so I switched to oranges.
I almost sold a full bag of oranges but the potential customer realized half of them were already rotting so he drove off. I am trying real hard, anything for the Fed. I even decided to educate myself with an essay on the Fed by Ezra Pound. I do not mean to complain but there was a single copy of this thing available on the whole planet – on the other side of the planet. It is like somebody is censoring (rather effectively) the greatest American intellectual of the 20th century – in America. And one more thing, don’t be a retard and a GangStalker.
Since that is about all their Navy consisted of -- yeah. Trump's lying.
I suppose I should acknowledge that the US torpedoed an unarmed Iranian ship returning from India. The Iris Delta has a crew of only 180 so it wasn't a very big ship. IIRC, there are still two others left.
Ukraine has zero ships left, yet the Russian BSF is bottled in the eastern third of the Black Sea
The shore has a huge advantage over fleets these days.
The big worry is why Iran has not sunk any US ships yet. It was an absolute must to do that, and they have the technical capabilty, but they didn't do it.
That means someone is still playing escalation management long past the moment total war should have been waged, and it is not a huge step from there to Delcy-style treason
Iran has been testing its equipment multiple times, noting US capacities & upgrading its own excellent missile & intel capacities with Russia & China gaming the moment. Sounds more like the Iranian spider inviting the American flies into the proximity of its web for the right coordinated moment of multiple vectors.
ROLE OF THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION: Its sad how USrael & NATO members are such INTELLECTUAL COWARDS afraid to enter into Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Public Dialogues. While hidden diplomacy has a small role it must always be combined with formal public dialogue/ 'debate' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight') in this case for the role of 8 billion people in the resolution of the issue of super-power murder of innocents as well as the energy economy which facilitates it. When 8 billion people each adjust their personal economies & lifestyles towards what they have witnessed in the verbal & physical engagement of international leaders, then arms & war become useless.
"I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness." Mohandas Gandhi in Harijan, 15-7-'39, p. 201.
Fair exchange Cowardly nothing of substance parties such as Israel & puppet Netanyahu/Trump Repugs or Demons & their fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') amnesic Oligarch overlords, don’t respond to formal public dialogues. Attacked nations such-as Iran need to respond, as-they-are, with sophisticated intelligence & bombs.
The rest of us 8 billion people, however can issue challenges to all Jews & Zionists to engage in Both-sides-now dialogues, published locally or on-line in-order-to capture the public narrative & thus culturally force expectations & acceptance into Civil Society, the Oligarch owned Political-class & minions to respond for-sake-of their vacuous reputations. Equal-time is important because they have to put their feet in their own mouths publicly. Common Monologues on any side do not convince anyone.
INTELLECTUAL COWARDICE OR TRUTH & RECONCILIATION? European Ashkenazi could’ve & still can engage with their Palestinian neighbours & governments in BOTH-SIDES-NOW, Equal-time, Recorded & Published DIALOGUES in-order-to lay the foundation for understanding, collaboration, working-relationships & Conflict-resolution with Palestinians, Iranians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Lebanese, Libyans, Afghanis & the rest-of-the-world. No bloodshed required. Refusal to engage in formal dialogue is intellectual-cowardice, although common in our western Oligarch institutional MONOLOGUES.
Cowardly people find it easier to kill, eliminating mental challenge than to be honest in dialogue & thus encountering the depth of themselves & life. Zionists have only proved their cowardice. Indigenous people refer to this as COUNCIL-PROCESS, Socrates as 'Dialectic-Rights, Mohandas Gandhi as 'Satyagraha' = 'Truth-Search' as-part-of India's 'Swadeshi' (Hindi 'Indigenous' aka 'Self-sufficiency') movement as the Economic Engine which asserted Independence.
BOTH-SIDES-NOW Formal Dialogues or Dialectics mimic the functioning of human mind. Both eyes for example see in 2-dimensions, but the images are joined in the Neural Cortex for their differences in-order-to construct a 3-D working model of the world we live & act in. All senses of Smell, Hearing & Kinetic body movement from our 2 arms, legs & sides add 'dialectic' ('both-sided') dimensions to the world we perceive.
Cotra , Anna , Ron : CAN WE IMAGINE HAVING A MURDEROUS MENTALLY SICK VIOLENT NEIGHBOUR LIKE THIS, MOVE IN NEXT DOOR? My heart goes out to the Middle-east & the rest of the Islamic world for having put up with such grotesque violent human abuse for 125 years.
72.2% of the lead Manhattan Project scientists (1939-46) developing the Nuclear bombs were Jewish, so transfer of the technology to Dimona in Negev Israel was not only planned earlier on & seamlessly transferred from US to Israel as part of Oligarch Jewish plans for empire hegemony. This nuclear bomb threat has been used for >75 years now from 1948 on to impose viscious Ashkenazi Jewish (some of my family in 3 branches) colonial supremacy on its neighbours.
COLONIAL ISRAEL'S 'SAMPSON OPTION' THREATENING NUCLEAR BOMBS early 1940s MANHATTAN PROJECT NUCLEAR BOMB DEVELOPMENT (way before Dimona) From the Manhattan-Project' Oppenheimer or such-as Julius & Ethel Rosenberg on down, 72.2% = 13 of 18 main Scientists (Google search) working on the development of the Atomic & Plutonium Bombswere Ashkenazi Jewish (some of my family in 3 branches). Essentially fake $$Oligarch directed & controlled, transfer of the Manhattan technology to the Negev Dimona Reactor in Israel isn’t in the hands of the American nor world peoples.
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None of the western empire 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') colonial nations are sovereign nor democratic. Manhattan Project scientists (J = Jew or significant Jewish family roots & associations) as-a small representative sample. Hans Bethe (J), J. RobertOppenheimer (J), Enrico Fermi (J), James Franck (J), Richard Feynman (J), Leo Szilard (J), Glenn Seaborg, Leslie Groves, Klaus Fuchs, Edward Teller (J),Albert Einstein (J), Ernest O. Lawrence, Niels Bohr-Adler (J), Joseph Rotblat (J), Robert Serber (J), Eugene Wigner (J), Robert Bacher (J), Aurthur Compton https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/People/Scientists/scientists.html Write-up on each Manhattan Project Scientist
Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744 to 1812, kindly warned us all publicly, "Permit me to issue the currency of a nation & I care not who makes its laws", combined personally with "It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it", attributed to Upton Sinclair. Cicero 106 to 43 BC wrote, "Nothing is so well fortified that; it can’t be taken with money".
With fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') & violent Oligarchy ('oli' = 'few' + 'archy' = 'rule-of') genociding humanity & destroying the biosphere, all so they can fulfill their Jetson (1970-80s cartoon) vision of living in bubbles on lifeless planets, peoples-unity is crucial. It’s not enough to analyze, protest, lobby & bitch, but to implement Circular Relational Economy among ourselves, families & communities. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
We already have the power among us all as bequeathed by all humanity's ancestral 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') practice of organizing CIRCULAR-ECONOMY in the intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale of the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village) architecture where 70% of people live today. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC-DEMOCRACY & subset political systems. Economic Democracy in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village), specialized Production-Society-Guilds & time-based equivalency-accounting on the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
yes. Iranians are dehumanized like Serbs, Russians or Iraqis. For example, EU cannot even condemn the killing of 165 girls in that school. Nobody asks for such condemnation in EU. No university or NGO. The west is so unanimous. The Warship pact communist parties were never so unanimous.
Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States,[38] France,[39] and North Korea say that they will use nuclear weapons against either nuclear or non-nuclear states only in the case of invasion or other attack against their territory or against one of their allies.
You haven't the faintest idea who and what most of Iranians are, let alone what a three thousand year old civilization's citizens likely want.
Your profile says you are seriously interested in psychology and specifically the degradation of society in a high tech world, yet you state categorically that is what every body in the world wants. To live like you. So much so that in the case of Iran, they must welcome being being bombed by you if it bring its about.
All societies and all nations eventually converge to some dark techno feudalistic hole such as the one I live in. I live like an night insect in the "wonderful neoliberal garden", I do not like. So I live like a cockroach, I admit. In the neoliberal order in technological society you can only live as cockroach.
But most of Iranians want to live in the garden. There are many of them also in USA.
The Iranians are not some Übermenschen. IRGC currently prevents them from surrendering. Why. Because IRGC guards some strong ideology, and conrols the gallows.
The only thing that really matters is if energy is flowing out of the gulf at normal levels. If Iran is negotiating and energy is not flowing, then the negotiations are as useful as combat. Blockage of supply from the gulf is the weapon.
The great lesson to oil producers is the need to develop large storage caverns where 100's of millions of barrels can be stored eliminating the need to shut down fields potentially damaging them.
If Iran is faced with the possibility of diminishing their oil potential over the longer term, that represents the leverage, perhaps to compromise.
I don't know enough about petroleum engineering to understand how serious the issue is with shutting in production. I dont believe it's as black and white of some reports make it out to be. There are lots of tricks that have been developed over 100 years of oil production for reconditioning and restoring fields.
"President Donald Trump on Saturday abruptly canceled a planned trip by special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to Pakistan, pulling back from what had been billed just a day earlier as a potential jump-start to fragile Iran talks." lmao
BREAKING | The Russian Foreign Ministry claims that Europe is allegedly preparing to seize Kaliningrad. (from Visioner on X)
Had Russia taken control of Ukraine, Europe might not have shown such eagerness to take control of Kaliningrad.
As I said before, most of Russia's problems stem from its failure to control Ukraine promptly.
Russia's problems keep piling up from its SMO failure, and I'm keeping track.
How many dead and injured Russian soldiers are we at, while the lines of friction have barely budged?
Why is the internet cut out in Russia that so many Russians relied on?
Why do citizens face jail sentences for rightly criticizing the SMO's failure?
How many more years of fighting and dying are Russians expected to endure?
Russian citizens are growing restless about this endless war.
Why does Russia keep supplying oil through Ukraine?
That oil fuels Ukraine's war machine, compliments of Moscow.
Already, the failed SMO is Russia's Vietnam by multiples.
Russia's SMO is so stagnant through WW1 positional, attritional warfare without significant outcomes, hardly anyone ever talks about it anymore, as if it's forgotten by the outside world. But Russian citizens care a lot. There's likely over 250,000 casualties. A lot of wives, mothers, and children whose husbands, sons, and fathers have died are breaking families apart. For what?
Meanwhile, Zelensky and friends roam freely, unafraid, emboldened and ever so defiant, never having to run for cover. Life is good for Zelensky and friends while Russian soldiers wait for the next drone to hit them from their permanent foxhole coffins.
And what do Russian citizens have to look forward to?
Well, more war, bigger war after Europe steps in, no matter the size of the force.
By failing to act decisively and control Ukraine, Russia will have amplified its problems 5 fold:
A never-ending path of death and destruction that doesn't even come close to compensating for the territory it gained.
And what if Europe does take Kaliningrad?
What if Europe takes Transnistria with only 3,000 Russian troops defending?
Who then becomes the attacker or the defender?
If only the Kremlin had shown resolve and actually done what it had to do to secure its western flank and instilled fear into the enemy by controlling Ukraine long ago. Europe wouldn't have gotten so bold, including the tiny Baltic. No one fears the Russian army because the Kremlin holds it back because they're to eager to resume business with the West at the cost of expendable Russian soldiers and their families.
You have a big mouth about Russia’s suffering but I can only see EU and Us in agony. This ain’t symptomatic but rather pathological Zelensky’s oligarch best mate just bought a 500 million appartement in Monaco, the most expensive ever, and we EU are gonna sponsor such “deals” with 80 billion pocket money for the big guy, it’s not like that that you win wars, you’re begging on your knees please Putin nuke us. Another point Pakistan has a deal with Turkey, when needed they can borrow one of their nukes, and I suppose not against Russia but against Israel and all his EU minions, because after Iran they’re next on the list.
>You have a big mouth about Russia’s suffering but I can only see EU and Us in agony.
What agony? Are apartment buildings bombed thousand kilometers west of the Ukrainian border and is the air hazardous to breathe near freshly struck industrial facilities in Europe? No.
But that is the daily reality of Russia west of the Urals
Exactly, GM. Russia, and the Russians in eastern Ukraine, have been subjected to terrorism, massacres, and assassinations from Ukraine for years. Gasses from the US's biological warfare labs in Ukraine leaked into Russia, harming many.
So then why do some say it is Russia's fault that the EU may be planning to attack Kalingrad?
Oh brother Russia’s getting stinking rich from the oil embargo, while the majority in EU cannot even pay the rent for their houses or their taxes. Been lately in a supermarket to buy some chocolate, gone up a double and quality the is half less, and more essentials products following within less than 6 months. The daily reality in Russia is indeed troublesome but you wanna change and take your luck in Ukraine?
They were Russian oligarchs, now 2 million live in Israel and the elite oligarchs whisper in Trump ears to bomb Iran to the Stone Age, it’s all in the family.
And what about the Donbass Russians that had to do a runner eastwards? Are they still planning on ever going back to their towns and villages and destroyed properties, or have they already come to terms with the real possibility that their best option is to start afresh in wherever they’ve been moved to? By the time the Donbass is liberated their kids will be grown up and won’t probably want to go back.
Don't you get tired of repeating the same position over and over again. Why are you so anxious for the war to expand. The US has certainly punched Iran in the face, did Iran cower in the corner? What makes you believe that a stronger attack on Europe won't do the same.
Your arguments would be more convincing if they were grounded in reality. At the outset of this war Russia was obviously in no position to defeat Ukraine militarily. It doesn't matter how many times you repeat the Russia should destroy Ukraine line that is not grounded in reality. Russia is fighting a totally different conflict. It seems you can't comprehend this point. Their major goal is to continue development according to their plan. They will win this by expanding their industrial base, developing new mlitary technical measures and keeping their population happy.
You keep dragging that poor horse out to flog it. There is zero chance the Europeans would attempt a kinetic attack on Kalingrad. You are confusing information war with the kinetics.
Another blame it on Russia rant when talking about Iran. The British keep pushing for Russian overextended. They need to see Europe burning to sleep at night.
So true, Denis. Cant add anything to you writing. Other than it was off-topic, but Simplicius need a reminder or two after nearly one month without an article about the precious SMO.
We are in a period of tremendous damage globally but are now beginning to see the outline of the future world order. Empire has been slapped down (twice now) it's hard to see how Russia, given it's vast wealth and tightening BRICS alliances doesn't fare much better than most other countries.You and others confuse the tactical with the strategic. Russia is in a strong position that only improves over time.
BRICS alliance is a joke. Russia is of course Russia - it stands where it stands. You, however, moves freely around every subject or topic without ever discuss it. You invent new ones over and over. That is both tactic and strategic from you.
BRICS isn't an alliance, it's a group attempting to buffer itself from a declining Empire. And not sure what you mean by me inventing new topics? You said Simplicius hasn't posted on the SMO for a month. I provided his article from last week. You seem to making shit up, no? Then you point out damage to Russia in an Iran thread. I'm pointing out that we are in a global conflict. Russia, Iran, Venezuela it's all part of WWIII. Empire isn't having any success, just doing what it does, expensive wars with little or no gain. How can this not be good for Russia, having bountiful natural resources and China as a partner. Step back Mickey, it's all part of the same puzzle.
Horseshit. Quit with the concern propaganda. This is the third or fourth iteration of the Ukrainian army, is it not? Literally millions have perished. Attrition warfare has served its purpose. Russians know how to fight a war and win, even a war so difficult as this one. The European countries currently attacking or threatening to attack Russia will know when they have pushed Russia too far. Except at that point it will be too late for them to avoid a disastrous result that will devastate their countries’ military potential and economies.
We will likely witness Russia achieve its military objectives in the Ukraine by the end of the year.
I have been wishing for that for a few years now.... maybe this year will be different but the europeans are determined to drive their own countries into the ground maintaining Ukraine... so who knows?
Regarding Iran, nobody has enough hard facts to make any realistic projections about outcomes. We are all deliberately being kept in an information vacuum. Therefore articles such as the above are a waste of everyone's time.
Regarding Ukraine, the following gets lost in the conversation, in my estimation deliberately so, because the “Putin has the perfect strategy” crowd do not have any viable response:
What were Russia's stated goals when it first started the SMO...
"The main aims of the special military operation are the protection of the DPR and LPR, forcing Ukraine to a neutral status, demilitarization and denazification of its state and social life, elimination of threats to Russia emanating from Ukrainian territory due to its development by NATO countries. The operation is not directed against the people of Ukraine.” https://pekin.mid.ru/en/news/about_the_special_military_operation_in_ukraine/
Someday when Russia creeps up to the last square centimeter of Donbass, they will still at that point have achieved only one of those stated goals. Is that so hard to grasp? What happens then? Change of strategy? Suddenly it's time for Russia to get serious about 'big arrow' military offensives (regardless of the outcome, Ukraine has already surprised Russia with one in Bryansk, so such a thing IS militarily possible). Take Odessa, take Kiev, kill that miserable Zelenskiy and his henchmen, change the Ukrainian constitution, make sure Oreshniks fall on any attempt at terrorist activity?
If all that comes to pass, the question is: why the hell didn't Russia accomplish all that a long time ago? Theoretically Russia has ALWAYS been stronger than Ukraine, even at the start of the SMO. But I guess Russia thinks that such an advantage didn't conform to Marquess of Queensberry Rules, instead Russia had to bide its time so that the West could ramp up its MIC and support Ukraine in a 'fair' fight.
My God, dealing with the emasculated assumptions of the illogical commenters here is infinitely tiring. They never understand, they never get the point, their heads must be made of cast iron.
Others who are still in Russia are playing 5D chess mode, are still validating and refusing to accept the reality of the situation without looking at the tremendous cost in lives and equipment with no strategic gain, while their enemy is further emboldened to expand and resist. It didn't have to be this way, and no one is held accountable.
"My God, dealing with the emasculated assumptions of the illogical commenters here is infinitely tiring. They never understand, they never get the point, their heads must be made of cast iron." Exactly.
“Russians are restless…” - Is this a conclusion of Ms. Pevchikh in service to MI6? It’s rather hysterical.
Russians do not want wars and Russians do not do carpet bombings.
Ukrainians are brotherly Slavic people captured by zio-banderites armed and financed by banking cabal.
Your judaized mentality does not compute with Russian trust in fairness and mercy. Banking dynasties and various compradors need desperately to get a collateral for the crushing Ponzi scheme run by Vampire Squid. They have been planning to attack Russia and China anyway, the enormous loss of human life be dammed.
Look at Syria and Gaza, little Sarah (aka denis). These cannibals want a strong Russian response to mobilize what is left of European resources and to destroy Russian civilization. The desperate zionized idiots are prepared to use nukes.
Time and real resources are on the side of Russia, China, and Iran. .
I find it funny how people focus so much on the tactical aspects of the Ukraine conflict. Even here the Russian are winning but some choose to proselytize regardless. What is never mentioned is the strategic shifts occuring in the global order. All, or nearly all, ongoing conflicts are an attempt to contain the rising powers. This has now proven to be impossible. The old Mahanian doctrine of controlling SLOC has failed. First in the Red Sea, now in Hormuz. Empire has an old toolkit for a new war. No amount of waffling by the "Russia has a failing strategy" crowd changes the failures of the old paradigm. Real defence is now available to all countries. They just need to align with BRICS.
The lunatic self ordained Messiah of the satanic cult would rather burn the world than accept defeat...but wait, he was perfectly fine getting humiliated by Ansarallah.
Are the Americans just going to watch this s**t show with popcorn or do something about this moron?
Since the people we elected to Congress won't do anything, our next move is the midterms. The number one thing that will decide votes - Do you support Israel?
Who do you plan on voting for that will be any different than the people that are there now? Yeah, they'll promise to stop the war and impeach Trump, but they'll just put on Kabuki Theater like the Democrats did in Trump's first term.
When votes are counted on unverified, proprietary machines manufactured by corporations owned by billionaires -- the billionaires always win.
I prefer Finkelstein's definition of Zionist. He had a long interview on "Bad Faith" recently where he repeated it.
"If you have the money in your pocket to get to Israel and you don't go, you aren't a Zionist."
I think this allows us to create categories to better identify who we are up against because we don't have to bring Israel into the discussion. We can talk about the "Jewish Mob" and the "Jewish Billionaires" and leave the fanatical Israelis out of the picture.
So you’ll get another Congressman who is a Randy Fine clone.
While it is true that many are running for office insisting that they have turned down AIPAC money, there are other ways to get the bribe money that most people who run for office are really seeking.
If ya feel like voting is going to help, then vote. I gave it up.
Probably non violent resistance along the lines of Gandhi would be appropriate and might work.
The problem is, his satyagraha model specifically calls for me being willing to suffer for my beliefs, eg get beaten with clubs, jailed and so on, as Gandhi and his followers were. An I that willing, or am I content to watch it all slide into the fire of Mordor.
Anyway it isn't and never will be about you, it is and only ever will be about what suffering I'm personally ready to take on. Which btw is, virtually none. So the world will remain f-ed bcs of me
You are right. Even a little bit of suffering is unbearable for us, and death, the ultimate resistance, unthinkable. Voting and such has repeatedly shown to be useless.
Listened to this podcast with The Duran and Robert Barnes. RB usually talks me back out of the rabbit hole a bit (Simplicius does as well). Said Trump is slipping mentally. I have to admit it does make a lot of sense…..Good interview
I have a simple question... I actually watched the video of Bessent. and Trump included in this piece, and it's obvious they're just dissembling and lying with every sentence they utter. Only the diehard cultists (as Chris Hedges has well-framed it) who still think Trump is playing 3-D chess would believe anything he's saying..
Why is not everyone and all other MSM not constantly mocking and pointing out all their flip flops and outright lies? All those military folks 'resigning'... and the implied mutiny on the Gerald Ford (how did they get the ship going again, did they fly in new crew to replace the exhausted one?)... the empire is floundering like never before... it's been quite a sight.
The main stream media is controlled. It doesn't matter if it leans left or right, there is a lane they won't cross, or else!
Unfortunately, there are still people that get their news from the MSM, and believe it's credible. Gullible, naive, dumb, or maybe just not all that interested.
Well, the "Wise Wolf" isn't going to be the one who is going to persuade me. It was all drivel for the first 5 minutes. He was going on and on about how smart he was and how dumb everyone else is. It would have been nice to know the article he was suppose to be reading.
A quick web search of "the 6 corporations that own the media" brings up many articles that are much more informative.
Sumner Redstone Jew
Bob Iger Jew
Jeff Bewkes Not a Jew.
Brian L. Roberts Jew
Rupert Murdoch Not a Jew
Kazuo Hirai Not a Jew
I (unfortunately) chose this one which is out of date, but "good enough" to examine ownership.
It is "interesting" to see how the 6 have morphed into other entities.
This list doesn't have Paramount in it. But National Amusements somehow became Paramount Skydance owned by Larry Ellisons son. Skydance is suppose to be buying Warner.
"The main stream media is controlled. It doesn't matter if it leans left or right, there is a lane they won't cross, or else!"
Savannah Guthrie can confirm. Stay on the reservation or maybe your mom gets a shallow grave in the desert. Old ladies in Tucson don't wander off without a trace. Doesn't happen.
The crew on the Gerald Ford isn’t exhausted nor affected of the fire but all their toilets are overflowing from the salmonella and the junk rations they have to swallow. Boots on the ground my God, Germans died of Dysentery in WWII in freezing Russia, Americans in Iran will die of dehydration if not of shell shock of the drones that buzz their ears.
It seems like getting rid of Israel is the solution. Maybe if the EU didn't have its head up its ass, it would be planning to cut off Israel instead of Russia.
are you kidding ? These guys have war fever....its adrenaline. I saw a video yesterday of the Iranian Navy guys climbing a ladder to get onto one of the tankers they apprehended....wow....takes a lot of courage.
Those small boats are equipped with missiles and you will bring down the ladder to avoid bringing your ship and crew in danger since you are operating in a war zone anyway. The only right thing for a captain to do is to surrender the ship.
Absolutely! The ship and cargo are insured, not the captain's problem. The safety of his crew is the captain's primary responsibility. I've skippered some, and it is a heavy responsibility.
Their insurance would be void when trying this - that's why they don't try to run the blockade like this did.. The USA blew up the engine room on the ship it seized to prevent it getting away. The boat that the clip showed only had a machine gun . In the past the Iranians have hit ships that have attempted to run the blockade . It looks like footage of an inspection rather than an attack . Just sayin...
you use five question marks Is that supposed to be interpreted as to how stupid I am ? That video was posted by some Iranian channel. Maybe they have only done that operation once ever so it really matters that I stupidly thought it was recent
This piece sidelines the fact that carpet bombing Iran, whether or not that is a good idea, is not a one way street. If he restarts that, Iran takes out the Gulf States bolting Israel onto that, and the Bab El Mandeb is closed... for starters.
It is not a question of whether he will go here or not, as a way out of this conflict. If only eh? This is one 'strait' that is closed.
There's nothing to stop Israel now from starting its next surprise attack with nuclear weapons.
The Iranians have already shown that they can destroy Dimona. If Israel's nukes are destroyed on the ground, then there will be no nuclear attack.
Destroying the world's economies is not a win. Iran does not list it as any of the 10 points they are trying to negotiate with Trump.
One of those is an end to all attacks on Iran and its allies. Iran's allies include Hamas and Hezbollah. Can you imagine Israel giving up Gaza and its push into Lebanon? I can't. Israel is the new Nazi Germany populated by people suffering under a mass psychosis. Finkelstein called them "Homicidal Maniacs".
China effectively dealt with the fanatical muslim terrorists (ETIM) in Xinjiang. I don't see how the same kind of reeducation might be implemented in Israel. That leaves complete destruction of the state of Israel. This doesn't mean all Jews have to leave. Jews live in peace in Tehran. But war crime tribunals are a must and Netanyahu must be executed.
Bombing the GCC is not in Iran's best interests. Raheb has explained in many of her reports how the Priests are moving to remove the monarchies from power. In Bahrain, the majority are Shia.
Israel has threatened Türkiye. Iraq has a considerable militia force that is willing to march on Israel. Jordan's king may be removed. If Iran concentrates on Israel, the entire middle east could join in.
I like my scenario better.
How interesting that so many news outlets will talk about the 10 point plan but then select which ones to talk about.
You've hit a nerve recently, as all of a sudden there is skepticism about your reporting - so it must be that the Maga folks are now in the anger phase of grief, as their whole house is collapsing.
Hired bots or trolls to infiltrate places where the truth is reported online? The mission is to create doubt in the minds of the readers and commenters.
Most readers here are seasoned geopolitical observers with multiple info streams... while we have our own biases, at least we're aware of them. Unlike the mindless trolls.
Fun fact, kubler Ross's later position was the five stages model which she originated was misapplied. First, originally it was specifically about coming to terms with terminal illness, not grief in general. Secondly the grieving process is neither linear not predictable.
A better imho model is James and Friedman, where grief is unique since each experience of each individual is unique, but there is an approachable process for processing it.
This is buyer's remorse, plain and simple. People were sucked in by image and/or the poor quality of the competing product.
A lot of sensible Republicans wanted someone, anyone, other than a former NY Democrat, but had to fall in line behind the great pretender. Now they will have to create max distance in order to get re-elected.
Exactly
The SMO was supposedly started to prevent US nukes from moving eastwards.
What happened with that?
There is a very realistic such scenario -- open nuclear use on Russia (not on Moscow, on military and industrial objects), the Kremlin folds with the excuse that it is better to take that loss than to kill hundreds of millions. And the alt-media will praise Putin as the savior of the world.
Of course then it won't be the last such use, but at this point there is no reason to think that the policy of turning the other cheek in the name of preserving the wealth of the oligarchs does not extend to nukes.
After all Toropets happened already, even if it was covert and not acknowledged.
I think Russia would not retaliate, even if Moscow burned to ashes. For Putin, it would be a chance to show his "christian values" again. For the surviving Russians, that would be a possibility to eat in Mc Donald's once when everything is rebuilt.
But, seriously. Russia placed itself in the corner. It has no military options but to attack Europe.
It has no options but to nuke Europe to zero, not just attack
If it attacks conventionally, that will achieve nothing more but the official enlargement of the current shitshow to include the whole perimeter from the North Pole to the Mediterranean. Likely some subs and ships will attack Russia from the Pacific too.
You cannot knock a determined opponent out conventionally these days, it's just not physically possible.
Why are the usually cautions protestants (North Europe) so determined?
Russia doesn't need to attack Europe to defeat Europe. In case you haven't noticed who runs the EU and most of the member nations, Europe is defeating itself.
Not to mention the energy crisis ... you can not win a war by stand/off weaponry ( aka. what US/EU alreadydoes trough UA ). That is why drone warfare is the "big hit" now in EU politics and funding. But also the only thing they are capable of at all. So ... no matter the damage to RF, the waiting game is in the end in favour of them ... not so much to the European population, and the dictatorship that comes after will be its downfall, yet inevitable, if the EU pushes this kind of policyes further. Also, even the drone card is riddled by coruption as hell, so it wont be as capable as they flashily present.
if nukes were used, russia has made it very clear that it will use them in return
at that point russia has nothing to lose by using nukes, and nothing to gain by not using them
Give me a break, Elena, that's beneath you, even for extreme sarcasm. That Finland changes an internal law means nothing until there are moves to actually put nukes on their territory. Then we'll see what Russia does. They might surprise you and me and everybody else.
Actions speak louder than words.
That's one of the messages of Russia's intervention in Ukraine. Russia invaded, applying "military-technical" means in the famous phrase, and it has killed over 500,000 of the Nazi regime's troops.
Finland amending its constitution is typical eurobabble. That is like discussing the latest table settings at EU meetings. It's just talk. If Finland advances that beyond talk, then they'll get one warning, just like Russia's ultimatum before it invaded Ukraine, and then we'll see what Russia will do.
An ultimatum from Russia is the real shot across the bow, not prissy maneuvers from babbling fools who elect the likes of Sanna Marin.
Probably the one time I disagree with you, one warning? Years of warnings since Putin told NATO what was going to happen in 2007 and attempts to resolve the Banderan problem diplomatically.
Finland is a wholly owned subsidiary of the WEF for now so I agree with JG. Placing nukes in Finland is not only bad for Finland, it is bad for the US strategically. We are stretched and the next few years it is not going to get better.
russia really does not give a Fuck about Finland
they are more concerned about stopping drone attacks originating from there
It’s a trio now: Elena, Cotra, and GM. They sing in one voice and demand a hot phase of WWIII to begin at once!
I don't consider 39 speed boats to be a massive flotilla or a credible offensive threat. However, they are present and either laying mines or enforcing the closure, they are completing their tasks.
No doubt Hegseth told my Mushroom-in-Chief that our mine sweepers, all four of them, are clearing the strait from somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
you have no idea what speedboats are operating or what they are doing
All you have is the propaganda bullshit you read on the internet daily.
when will you finally learn how you are being played??????
ALL WARS ARE PROPAGANDA WARS besides being banker wars
god, people are stupid, they actually believe in "Fake" Intellligence, and the crap they see / hear / read on the internet, and what politicians say.... and of course hollywood films.... and bla bla bla
fucking Clown World on display, alright... in the comments section.
that is just pathetic
nobody is capable of saying, "I don't know," or "we will just have to wait and see."
The speedboats are useful for a limited purpose(s). Iran's real threat is that it can provide air and surface cover for them from land. That's why there are no US minesweepers or their support craft anywhere near the gulf.
Well they’re not in Lugansk
The SMO began to bring the Banderans to negotiate. It worked, the Banderan Kapo reneged and who gives a shit if Finland votes to accept nukes? Putin holds the ultimate veto.
no, the SMO was started because the Ukraine made a grab for the Donbas
US Nukes are aleady located close enough to russia to be able to hit it in 15 or 20 minutes time (MOSCOW)
US nukes were not the problem... Millions of russian in Donbass and Crimea (MAJOR ISSUE) were the problem
another childlike poster fascinated with nukes. Sorry
Ukraine controlled most of the Donbas, which was recognized by Russia as being Ukrainian.
I can see only tell you what Putin said Russia's objectives were in his speech on 24 February, 2022; "It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force. At the same time, we have been hearing an increasing number of statements coming from the West that there is no need anymore to abide by the documents setting forth the outcomes of WW 2, ... How can we respond to that?"
I still clearly recall an event when Finland faced off the Soviets over the fate of a smaller island, the Winter War. It did not work out very well for them although they fought heroically.
I think I know what you want those poor Russians do first before anybody else. You just will have to spank them harder to follow your instructions.
Just listen to the likes of Trump, Bessent, Blinken, Nuland, Graham, Clinton, FondOfLying, Kallas, Starmer, Makron, Merz, Rutte,…. You think these are sane people? You think they are going to listen to reason? You think they are going to surrender? You think they don’t mind losing face?
Think again. It doesn’t matter what Russia does except total destruction, but otherwise they will never ever quit. They are safe, they don’t care about the hundreds of millions dying.
‘They are safe’
I wouldn’t bet my sweet life on that.
They are sane and they listen to reasons but they dont care. They will not surrender and above it all lose face. Evil has many faces and you are staring at it.
>You think these are sane people? You think they are going to listen to reason?
They are perfectly sane and rational, they do monstrous things because there are zero repercussions to them.
Make it physically impossible for them to do those monstrous things and they will stop doing them
The rogues' gallery you list act the way they do because they can.
Hell, Caligula was polite and mild-=mannered, before he became emperor.
That is a common reaction, "just get it done". There is more to it than that. Hell, I would like to see Trump, or who ever is running this shit show, to instigate a ground invasion. The sooner the US military collapses, the sooner the US dollar is no longer the reserve currency and the money dries up to fund all these forever wars.
blow it out your ***
you are just some pogue in momma's basement shitposting about stuff you are not qualified to talk about...and calling Putin a wuss is not gonna change that, boy
It was over a lot more than a "smaller island".
And Russia did not win that exchange in retrospect -- yes, it won both wars, but in the end barely any Finns died in the 1939-1945 period compared to the millions of Russians killed by the Finnish and German Nazis. Sure, in the end Finland was cut off from access to the Arctic, and lost some territories in the south too, but it was not completely eliminated as a latent threat as it should have been.
So here we are today.
Dear GM, every comment of yours I read, wether it's concerning Ukraine, the Middle East or anything else, always comes down to one message:
They (referring either to Russia, or China, or Iran, or another Global South Country) should have killed everyone and everything, they didn't, that was a mistake and they better should start killing each and everyone of their opponnents rather today than tomorrow - ideally by nuking every western capital and financial hub.
Now I wonder, is this just a peculiar Lust of Death and Blood on your side? Is it trolling? Is it a man/woman deeply depressed by the world, who has therefore turned to Doomsday-thinking? Or is it in order to provoke people either to agree to murderous ideas or in order to appal them?
I am genuinely curious since I read your comments for months now - sometimes they include interesting thoughts, I like to contemplate about -and really wonder what's up with you. Because, in all earnest, if you do think murdering every opponnent is a viable idea, I'd say you should do some digital-detox, maybe enjoy nature and refresh yourself. It doesn't seem healthy to me, to think so negatively.
Wish you the Best.
Why is it that Circassians and Crimean Tatars are not arming themselves with nukes and going on the warpath against Russia, but Germans, Poles. Finns, etc. are?
I wonder what the difference is between those groups...
Mathematics explains it.
How many Tatars live in Crimea?
And what is the population of those countries you mention?
Have you considered to look at the real owners of Germans, Finns, Poles, et cet.? No? Why?
What’s wrong with Sikorsky-Applebaum? With Ursula wonder lying? Stubb, Sanda Marin?
A suggestion for you: look for a meaning of the word “compradors” and ponder for a moment for whose interest the above mentioned compradors have been acting.
Money lenders, mega thieves, mega war profiteers, and such are at the core of highly militant force that needs constantly more loot. It is not about nations. This is about supranational criminal cartel of subhumans of Tony Blair and Ellison/Kushner kind.
You have been barking on a wrong tree.
The average German does not differ from Ursula in his view of Russia as much as you might think.
The average German is also just as much a parasite who has been living way beyond his mean off resource extraction from the rest of the world, primarily Russia and Eastern Europe, as Ursula
It was also not Hitler who set whole villages on fire in Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia in the 1940s, it was the average German doing that. With great joy.
Zero mercy, burn it all with fire, they have earned it all, 100%.
Yes. Americans and Jews always tend to eliminate the opponent entirely and forever. That is how they do it and that is why they are superior today. Everybody knows that they are not only willing, but eager to kill.
Are they really superior? Perhaps they were once upon a time, that wonderful, blisful period of ignorance seems to now have come to an end.
If they still can win they are still superior.
More murderous doesn't mean superior.
They aren't superior. They are Godless, soulless, and evil cretins... Chip
If they can win, If everybody is afraid of them, tehy are superior.
It works.
"but it was not completely eliminated as a latent threat as it should have been."
You're absolutely right about that, but in making that comment you're just adding to the seemingly endless list of ways in which the Bolsheviks and their Soviet grandee inheritors totally screwed up Russia and Eurasia.
Stalin had Finland totally under his thumb, exactly where he wanted it and without any threat whatsoever to the USSR. Same with Ukraine, the artificial Soviet Socialist Republic he created by gluing together some pieces he took from surrounding territories. None of that mattered with a guy like Stalin in charge and he knew that.
But the safety of that system depended up on a single individual who was perfectly willing to kill tens of millions of his own people as well as anybody else to avoid any danger to his system. That's not a system that can survive the death of such an individual. In fact it's not a system that could even survive while that individual was alive, because the operational terror required to enforce it affected the calculations of the very people who were supposed to implement that terror.
There's reason to believe that Beria poisoned Stalin when he realized Stalin was about to swap him out for the next henchman/executioner in line, just like how he swapped out Yezhov for Beria. Yezhov died crying and begging for mercy just before he was shot in the head with a pistol. Beria didn't want to end that way so he poisoned Stalin. (Ultimately that didn't help as Khruschev with Zhukov's help engineered a coup to arrest and kill Beria given the plotter's fear that Beria would replace Stalin and use the same terror methods against them. Beria also died crying and begging for mercy just before he was shot in the head with a pistol.)
But from the Politburo on down the USSR was fed up with Stalin's ways. That had to change and it did, first in a softer USSR led by Khruschev and the Brezhnev, and then ultimately through a line of increasingly weak leaders who sought a more modern, humane solution to the many intractable problems the Bolsheviks and Stalin left in their wake.
So far, Putin has by far the best track record in rebuilding Russia despite the almost insurmountable structural problems, like all those fake countries created by Stalin and incipient cancers like Finland, left behind by the Communists. So far he's managed to keep the country growing, developing far beyond where it should be given the massive destruction wrought by Communism, with a high quality of life and development better than Western Europe. That's not a bad track record.
How long he can keep up that balancing act while Nazi cancer and delusional rage metastasize in Europe is an open question. Could it be we'll have a limited nuclear war to clean up messes like Finland left behind by the Communists? Maybe. Could that limited war escalate to massive exchanges with the US? With a guy like Trump in power anything can happen. Time will tell.
Finland had a 90 year treaty with the Soviets and then Russia. Flushed it away in 2022. No problem. There is no reason why the Duchy of Finland can't be resurrected and once again made a vassal state of Russia.
IIRC, it was fought over the Karelian Isthmus.
Originally Stalin kept psycho bubbling about a single island to set up defenses for Saint Petersburg from the Baltic Sea. After the Finns refused and spanked him real hard he refused to take an anger management course and took major territories. Actually, I was surprised that he left off the Finns with those losses.
That is not what happened. There were islands involved, but it was about much more than that.
Stalin was extremely concerned by the fact that Finland was aligning itself with the Germans (and the West more generally, not only the Germans -- at the time Stalin was afraid of a war with the combined West). The border was running just 20 km from Leningrad thanks to yet another idiotic goodwill gesture, this time by the Tsar in 1812, who transfered Viborg, which had been part of Russia since 1721, to Finland. Kind of like giving Crimea to Ukraine within the USSR. But then Finland went independent in 1918 and the first thing it did was to invade Russia to get more land, multiple times. That's the thanks you get in geopolitics for being nice.
So Stalin sees the growing threat and he spends all of 1939 in futile attempts to move the border further away from Leningrad, by offering them twice as much land in exchange further north in Karelia. A very generous offer. But they refused. And that left Stalin no choice but to take it by force in the Winter War.
Given how Leningrad barely survived a couple years later after the border had been moved by force, he was 100% vindicated in his demands and actions.
That's good! Because the way Finland has behaved, sooner or later nuclear weapons will be arriving on its territory. So when that happens, it will all be legal, no reason to complain about it.
> He is inviting catastrophe.
For Europe.
All this just recreates the Iron Curtain setting but along Karelia instead of Germany. Finns will do nothing with these nukes because whatever damage they could inflict they known they will disappear in minutes.
To push back the border west of Donbas hills was much more important because that's from the southern step that Russia is more vulnerable. With USA controlling Donbass, Ukraine would have become a giant parking lot for divisions meant to launch raids to Moscow, to the Volga, etc, German style So the take-over of Donbas was needed.
What leadership in MSK must finally decide is to hit Finland and Estonia with drones, put some factory on fire. Just put a trizub on the drones, tell they lost their way. No article 5 will be triggered for this but it will calm the Chuds.
Russian elite likes to live in London or Paris, so Russia wont retaliate if hit by nuclear weapons.
Russia will certainly retaliate if hit "by nuclear weapons," they have made that abundantly clear over the last few years
Any nuclear nation would do the same...there is really no other course of action except surrender
I, too, as a world leader, would order an equivalent response if so attacked. I would have that responsibility to my country and people... Anything less would be the action of a traitor.
You, perhaps, would stand by and let an armed robber enter your house and murder your family... i would not
Well, Putin could be a traitor. Russia is so westernized it cannot fight the West any more.
Please read Karaganow. He syas what I was saying for a long time.
https://www.rt.com/news/639064-eu-has-gone-mad/
We do, after all, have a presence there. If it weren’t for the European influence, we wouldn’t have Karamzin, we wouldn’t have Pushkin, we wouldn’t have Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Tolstoy, or even Dostoevsky, who as you know, was rather skeptical about Europe. Fair enough. So, Europe is the source of all evils, especially for Russia, both moral and military. Five hundred years of monstrous history, and even more, dating back to the time of Alexander Nevsky. We must put an end to our European history, and those who are eager to return to Europe, to their mansions or their capital, must be removed from our elite or expelled. However, some of them have already fled thanks to the military operation in Ukraine. But it is not worth continuing it indefinitely and wasting our best men on trying to persuade Western Europe to see reason. We must start striking back.
Sergey Karaganov: We have hoped for reconciliation for far too long; there was, and perhaps still is, a very strong pro-European sentiment in our society and among our elite, although I must emphasize that, in the current circumstances, pro-European sentiment and Western-leaning attitudes are a sign of foolishness and moral duplicity. So, we now need to act decisively, realizing that the EU must be stopped. If it is not stopped, there will be a major war, which will lead to the destruction of Europe anyway, but we do not need to lose our best people and risk our cities for the sake of the EU. It must be stopped. It has broken free from its chains once again, as has happened many times in history.
Nuclear weapons on Finland can be delivered from Russia
News, but off-topic.
Agree.
Agree. I’ve been following Judge Napolitano and realised that all of the he invites have lost track of what is really going on. His chats have mostly become talks about the madness of Trump. Same phenomenon as the perennial blaming of WWII on the Austrian’s peculiarities. It avoids looking at what is really going on. No one seems to realise that if Hitler didn’t exist or had been killed there would still be a long list of wannabes starting with Goebbels, Goering, Hess, etc., etc. And it’s always the people that ignore Marx that fall into this trap.
The Duran is even worse. Napolitano does that a lot too, but there is at least some excuse given his background. But for people from Europe, Greece especially, there is no excuse to be discussing the situation from the perspective of how the monstrous crimes that Trump himself commits are wrecking Trump's presidency. If the it is discussed at all, how Iran is to win the war kinetically takes 5% of the time, the other 95% is lamenting how regrettable for Trump and America Trump's actions are...
Wait a minute, whose side are you on? Truth and justice and the victims, or the side of the new Hitler and the new Nazi Germany? It's not clear...
Napolitano has had that problem for quite a while.
some of the best pundits on the internet have simply gone silent because they realize there is nothing to say until the situation in the Gulf has worked itself out.
People like Napolitano, Johnson, MacGregor, Mearsheimer, Ritter.. they make their money off their daily updates, and when there is nothing new to say they are desperate to keep the "conversation" going, so they start grasping at straws.
Even Sachs is guilty of this. They just can't shut up or admit that we have to wait and see.
Don't you think that an admiral resigning/fired in the middle of a disastrous war for the U.S. is an important sign of the status within the lunatic asylum?
I would be interested to read an assessement by Simplicius, how popular Mr. Putin still is. I can't believe that Russia still hasn't achieved its aims after four years of war. Where are the millions of soldiers willing to fight for Russia? Where are the Russian "Wunderwaffen"? Where are the military geniuses of the Russian army? How comes that millions and millions of Ukrainians are dead or forced to fight - but there are hardly advances in the Donbass? How comes that Kiew is the most popular tourist destination for western politicians? I mean: Who would voluntary visit Gaza without a death wish? But Kiew, Lwow? Is there a war? Did I miss something? Must be great fun living there... How many Russians have to die in Donbass or even in the Russian heartland til Mr. Putin understands that this is not a war betweein Russia and Ukraine, but Russia and NATO.
I see how bravely the Iranians smash the US forces and their allies and I wonder what American assets are directing the war in the Kremlin. I wonder how long does it take til the first mutinies will happen in the Russian army. If Stalin would have fought the same way, the Great Patriotic War would be still lasting and the Russians would be near the Polish border.
I can't believe that the Russians don't feel betrayed by these morons in Moscow. This war is existencial for both sides. If the Russians win the whole Western system must be re-invented and a lot of politicians will fall. Defeat is not an option for the West. But the same applies for Russia. The revenge of the West against Russia will be cruel if Russia loses. See Gaza, see Lebanon, see the girl's school in Mandib - that will be the future of Russia (and China) if they lose.
I'm not voting for "nukes to London, Washington or Berlin". Suicide should be prevented. But some Oreshniks at Rheinmetall, NATO baracks at the Ukrainian border or the downing and killing of ISR-flights and - crews would be a good start.
At the moment the Ukraine war is for the West like "Call of Duty": You have to pay for play - but you won't suffer if you lose. Westerners should finally know what war means. Sorry: Russia has the second strongest army - in Ukraine. Russia emanates weakness, not strenght.
The most recent ratings, for April 13-19, were released today.
Putin's popularity is at 65%.
Not 80%.
This is a huge drop, it hasn't been this low since the 2012-13 period.
And we all know it is not reallt 65% because a lot of people are afraid to say what they really think.
Also, Zyuganov the other day gave a speech in the Duma in which he said that if serious measures are not taken immediately to correct course, by the end of the year a new 1917 can be expected. Yes, he said exactly that. Which is hugely significant -- 1917 is what the current Russian elites fear the most, and it has been a taboo topic, Zyuganov, who has been a loyal bootlicker of United Russia for decades, went there.
The situation is completely intolerable.
You probably haven't seen the news from the last hour, but the following were hit by An-196 drones:
1) A skyscraper in the center of Yekaterinburg. But the Yeltsin Center was of course untouched
2) The Chelyabinsk metallurgical plant
3) The Tobolsk petrochemical plant
Yes, you read that right -- Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Tobolsk.
Behind the Urals.
There is only so much pretending nothing is happening that the Kremlin can do before resentment boils over
P.S. What happened to the MoD's list of targets? Those drones are made in Poland.
Zyuganov hopes to get in position to trade with Trump instead of Putin doing the same.
"And we all know it is not reallt 65% because a lot of people are afraid to say what they really think."
NO, you don't know.
1. Opinion polls are ALWAYS shit
2. If it's on the internet, it's also shit
grow the fuck up
yes, but you don't know shit..
that makes a huge difference
Putin and his staff spend many hours burning the midnight oil over this shit while they run a country and a war and a major petro industry.
All you do is shitpost over your morning cup of tea...
Kiev is the recipient of pallet loads of money. Every one who is any one needs to visit on the off chance of a potential "business " deal, or two. Don't forget Ukraine's National Anthem (royalties owed to Abba ).
So? It works. Every politician stops by Kiev, and does so with total impunity.
Nobody stops by Gaza.
"I see how bravely the Iranians smash the US forces and their allies"
really? You call blowing up some overseas bases on foreign soil with low casualties (yes, a few hundred casualties would still be "low" to a country of 350 million) "smashing US Forces?"
you are a child and talking way over your head
Yes. that is real news. It shows us how deeply Russia is defeated. From nuclear launch to detonation in Sankt Petersburg in just 20 seconds.
Russia has sunken, defeated and desperate. It waits to be plundered and dismembered. It lost all escalation capacity. In his incompetence, Putin considered Europeans to be rational players. But under the mask of technology, academia, business and culture, there is the essence of European spirit - the pirate's will to plunder and kill. There is no difference between elite and plebs. The unconscious dream about blonde sex slaves - Epstein style is too strong. Or going to the East to conquer and plunder. Is that not the real European dream for 1000 years, only partially modified when "our boys" had to go to Africa and Asia and rob brown people. And Russia.... Since Peter the Great pursuing euro fanaticism... Russian children learning French, learning to imitate European culture and omitting to build their own. Now the price has to be payed for centuries of cultural submission.
Russia and China could have defeated the Empire but their elites were desperate to eat ice cream in Toscany. The highest point of these two civilization and nation states is full servitude to big, wonderful elites of USA, EU and Israel.
Donald Trump is big winner here. His madness, real or not was calculated. Anglo Saxons know how to frighten the slaves, being that Slavs o Chinese.
There are no axes of resistance. Malaysia and Indonesia are grateful to be allowed to take part in another anti China blockade.
And Iran.... CNN cant be more clear https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-military-plans-iran-targets-strait-of-hormuz
Iran and NK are today the only nations in the world still really resisting. The reason is that their elites still have some other ideological goals, far above the mentioned ice cream in Toscany. Without repression, no country can be independent of the West as the West can always buy slaves among the population. Only those afraid to lose their heads shall pick loyalty to their own country above the availability of Coca Cola and Snickers. Individual freedom is bullshit or a fake teen age trip.
However, We must admit that Anglo Saxon elites managed to create an imaginary world that most of the world's population still consider superior. That is what we call the American dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM
>Russia has sunken, defeated and desperate. It waits to be plundered and dismembered. It lost all escalation capacity. In his incompetence
Deranged doomer, keep defeating Russia on forum threads. So sad and pathetic.
That was a funny read, Cotra.
Coca-Cola and Snickers, the symbols of empire. lol
For most of the humans, that is more then enough.
What is “Toscany”?
Toscana
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YG0MmOEDU
Better than Rammstein… ;)
Next time, we will not be saving Americans pilots.
No. This implies some resistance, some difference.
But there is no resistance, specially in Serbia.
Serbia is today a vassal country of USA and Israel.
The Serbian self illusion of resistance to the West is fake as in Russia. The Serbs adore the west. The Serbs are happy slaves.
2/3 od Serbs are against EU.
90% are against NATO.
Only who is pro USA/EU/srael is Vucic and his SNS "elite" that get endless stream of money from the west and free rein to do whatever he want in exchange to keep Serbia vassal state.
When time comes, we will f. the westerners and Vucic. Youth of Serbia do not want Coca Cola and other w. sh.... We will not allow EU to dig Lithium for drone batteries from Serbia soil, we will not allow USA to destroy our monuments of NATO aggression. West own us in blood!! Just like Chines said: USA own us in blood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LSHMp2xyA for destroying and killing chines in Chines embassy in Belgrade in 1999. Chines f.... man who "provides old maps to pentagon so USA bomb Chines embassy by mistake" - they kill him on anniversary of bombing, in front of his house.
It will be like Miroslav Radačovský say in EU parliament: "zo západnej Európy urobíme trávnik "! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bjvGAwmNGmM
There is no massive political option in Serbia that is against EU.
Serbia is de facto in NATO, only not formally.
CeSID (June 2025): 46% of citizens would vote "for" entry in a potential referendum, while 44% are against.
I was programmed during my military service to dislike Serbia,
I am developing a new respect for the Serbs as time goes by
Finns also increased reserve recall and mobilization age limits to 65 years earlier this year. Retired military officers can be recalled with no upper age limit.
The Swedish-Belgian globalist madman Stubb seems to wish to have large amount of Finns killed, well no wonder, he has been quoted saying that he feels more Belgian than Finnish. His actual Swedish first name is 'Caj-Göran' but he prefers Alexander because name like Caj-Göran would likely not have gotten anyone elected in Finland...
The Finns are eager and ready to fight and die, just like Ukrainians. Their hate is a huge motivation factor.
65 years... that is pathetically desperate
the Finns have a serious drinking problem and it is becoming very obvious
That's why I like TASS they mention all the stories. How can we have a functioning democracy when none of our MSM function as anything but propaganda dispensers.
A very good plan. Who doesn't want a bit of nuclear energy theses days?
Fired!
2nd
Nice try. 😉
LOL
AFK
How could this happen? John Phelan was a major contributor to Orange.
There were plenty of people kicked around and out who wholeheartedly supported Orange Man prior. As far as the extreme risks involved with the US Navy sailing into the PERSIAN GULF or landing on Persian soil, those are fairly obvious. I would not blame any military leader second guessing Orange Man for being pushed into absurdly difficult acts there. Recall the two C-130s and the sad fate of related hardware recently. Word is that Orange was hysterical and he had to be locked out of the situation room at the (Formerly) White House so he was certainly not micromanaging the action at that moment. But the pressure on the secretary of peace, etc. was there.
Another issue is the unstable behavior of Orange and/or his handlers. Erratic actions might scare some nations for a while but Persia seems to have passed this period behind, sorry. When Israhell and the US attacked they gave Iran the ultimate tool to fight back and Iran was not shy to use that tool, Hormuz. To break the Persian control on Hormuz might be and extremely difficult military act, hard to predict if it can be done at all. Keep in mind: In a war where one party is forced to fight with $1 million missiles against $20,000 drones unpredictability will always be a factor.
it might be hegseth.
If I can read body language correctly that guy will need four women every night to warm him up in bed since he goes home frozen, in fear from Orange.
No need for 4 women when a little nip does he same thing.
"A man needs something to believe in - I believe I'll have another nip."
Trump has loyalty to no one. Kiss his butt or face his wrath.
I like Iran's chances. The US military doesn't have any real allies, except Israel who only does bombings and assassinations. Any boots will be American, any ships damaged will be American, and of course, the money is American.
It's a very long supply line through few friendly places, the American people and soldier's hearts are not in it, and most of the world see's Trump as dangerously insane.
I agree with with you, Jeannie, regarding Trump's non-loyalty. If someone is his golfing buddy, a favored interviewer, longtime business associate--those ties can dissolve with one 'misstep' by the person. A sentence or two spoken that is not in full support of T can be cause for ouster, ridicule, and larger punishments. And T is an elephant, for he does not forget the missteps, and may continue to stomp on the offender years later.
No wonder people in the White House walk on eggshells around him. He is an impulsive, angry, intolerant, explosive bully. He demands things his way...or else. Remember the story about Donigula being unhappy with the footwear of male WH workers? He bought each one a pair of black Florsheim oxfords--all the same style--in order to please his eye. I am sure the recipients wear the shoes to work each day. They don't want to be subjected to a tirade or a firing.
Just like any typical mob boss.
Trump is too stupid to be a mob boss.
yeah - he always needs their help - he's their customer
Dear Jeannie, You are most likely French and that is why you are trying to insult my beloved president. He does have loyalty toward Billionaire Republican mega-donor Miriam Adelson and related gangs because he received 250 million from the fine lady.
Au contraire! That's not loyalty, that's being for sale! His Mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberries!
Not $250 million from Miriam Adelson. $100 million. Trump received $250 million from Elon Musk in 2024. People rarely talk about that.
AI said there were many additional donations from the lovely old jewish lady.
Sheldon and Miriam donated over $420 million to Trump's campaigns from 2016 to 2020. The biggest single donors in those years. So, yep.
This is a case when one man’s generous donor becomes another man’s buyer of America. During his first election Trump enjoyed a barely covered push from the US media that was literally priceless for his campaign. One goal of the whole Trump show was to secure the way for the full genocide of the Palestinians and the drive for Greater Israel.
And now, over a dozen high ranking scientists were executed at the very front of the general public. Just to make sure that various alternative energy technologies will not undermine the position of fossil fule hegemony Trump is building. Trump is pushing the West toward chaos, working hand in hand with Bibi.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/us/deaths-disappearances-scientists-investigation
yeah the way Trump is behavng and the results of it - makes one wonder - what were Trump's goals when he ran for president ? Was it perhaps the election campaign and the big win. Did he - does he - what does he want ?
"Did he - does he - what does he want ?"
I think he wants to do what Bibi wants him to do. Or else...
The vids of him romancing the kids on Pickle Ball Island
must be double-plus-good. Poor Orange doofus-caught
between Iran and a hard place.
And it will be the whole world that suffers economically from the actions of the draft dodging PEDO POTUS and his Zionist overlords. The US is not escaping the consequences this time. Their fake debt economy is going to blow up. The rats know it and have been fleeing the ship.
*Europe's Decoupling from USA*
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg5x3C-tXr9BhCgYGNb_Jz38oc1bWa-IL
'Orange was hysterical and he had to be locked out of the situation room...' < during the spat with Gen. Caine (as per last week's infamous Larry Johnson interv.).
My informer stated Orange completely lost control when the two lost pilots’ case was discussed and they had to lock him out. I just wish thy made a video of the event.
without ever having had any military or pilotry training T might be utterly unable to actually imagine what these actions entail in reality. however, based on some of Simp's sources it seems Big Money, by way of the billionaires controlling the media are getting more determined to nudge T towards the side-exit.
mary-lou; my guess is that at some point the expense incurred by "Reputational Damage" will become irrecoverable in either the short, medium or long term. Too many toes get stepped on and folk will vote with their feet and be busy making alternative arrangements. We're seeing this happen already with the (Soccer/Football) World Cup due to Kick Off in a couple of Months which is in danger of becoming a big flop.
good one! 'in danger of becoming a big flop' << wonder why....
Speaking of which one are those guys
I would have thought they’d be paraded around like show ponies by now
They probably do have a video. Bibi is the one who has it
We should send the Army to get a full copy of his library. If the libtards call it a crusade I will call it the delivery of a refund request for our investment.
Divide and conquer the US. Spoking like a true believer in the Epstein Class.
As a Secretary of Navy you dont risk the ship&men on uncertain goals.
If you speak up you have to go.
I expect mutiny on a number of ships when tension is rising.
isn't it the navy that has the nukes ?
The U.S. Navy is estimated to control roughly 1,000–1,100 nuclear warheads, primarily deployed on Ohio‑class ballistic‑missile submarines. The other two components of America's "Nuclear Triad," are the Air Forces strategic bombers and the land-based ICBMs. All told, it's about 5,550 nukes in Uncle Sam's arsenal.
However, this Triad's effectiveness is not absolute: it faces high costs, aging infrastructure, and strategic debates about whether this Cold War–era structure is still optimal for 21st century threats or the ability to keep world peace.
thanks for that.
My pleasure, Ann. PS American defense--it's paying for and building a military that was useful in 1941-1945--but, not today. We are spending close to a trillion USD and POTUS wants billions more spent. On costly, obsolete weapons.
Meantime, countries like Iran studied 21 century warfare and needs no navy, no air force--just a small Army and a huge supply of drones and missiles. These are all built underground beneath granite mountains with many entrances and exits. (They learned this all from North Korea.) Impenetrable.
Iran has succeeded in "blinding" the US military by attacking costly radar stations in the Middle East which cost America billions. POOF!
Recent examples: US Navy in the Iran war just sent up an unmanned MQ-4C Triton drone and the Iranians promptly shot it down with pinpoint accuracy using tracking data co-ordinates with a cheap missile.That one drone cost US taxpayers $238,000,000.00. This Iran war will bleed American finances white.
yes. I'm Canadian but we're going to feel it here too. Very worried because I have farm animals and am living on a pension. Wish they would grab Trump and impeach him. btw - I heard John Phelan - Naval Secretary - is in the Epstein Files.
Yorktown Naval Weapons Station stored the nukes and loaded them aboard carriers when they went out on patrol. For some years now that practice was stopped. Nuclear torpedoes, dumb bombs, and conventional munitions.
We have no idea what is on board now. I don't know what the 'W' that just left town was loaded with at Yorktown before leaving. Those are not news items.
so the Naval Personnel is trained in handling and embarking on a nuclear strike but they don't know ahead of time I'm sure all those boats and subs are fully loaded. I hate the American Government. You know what I find the stupidest thing IN THE WORLD is that a cheap and lowlife politician gets into office for 4 years and has the power to use those things. The weapons should be under the control of the military and the military only. It should be a completely separate entity from the political side of government. Same with the financial sector. Will we ever learn ?
They sure did. Ever since SALT II in 1972 the senior staff, i,e., flag officers were well aware of the hazards of nuclear warfare.
You may have heard that the DoW Chief of Staff Gen. Cairn refused to give Donigula the nuclear codes?
Allegedly, Donnie was also locked out of the war room (Situation Room) when there was a little C-130 mishap in Iran.
I've heard both those things. Trump wants to nuke Iran. Satanyajew wants to nuke Iran. Russia and China and Iran all know this. What do you think will happen ?
the hazards of nuclear warfare were gamed out by RAND corporation in the late 50s.
NOBODY WINS in a general nuclear exchange
submarine nukes win the game... you might be able to hit your opponent's land forces but there is no way you can hope to take out all your opponents subs, and once they launch there is little chance of stopping the incoming
the name of the game since the 50s has been how to win using CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS and all these little kiddies hyperventilating about nuclear wars are just that - immature little propagandized children
They have not done it yet and they had multiple chances so why would they do it now?
Besides the military has its means of enforcing the compliance. That was true in any war so far - just see what they did during ww1 as one example.
They have no backing from Congress, no mandate whatsoever from UN and the whole US&Isreal war is a complete Warcrime because no one threatened them.
First, it's not congress that authorises such - it is Bibi and the Mossad - https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/israel-runs-pentagon?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=314817&post_id=195331948&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1pztks&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Secondly, the US does not recognise UN authority over such
Lastly, neither the US nor israel recognises international law except for others.
Lol..must have missed much in the course of International Affairs.
You nailed it.
Are we sure that our perception of reality is the right one?
Everyone's perception of reality is the right one. Reality is what we devise - and for those lacking an independent spirit, reality is what our elites devise for us - they leave no one behind. 😎
neither do the brits, the french, the russians or the chinese
when International law does not suit the SC members, they simply ignore it
Imagine the annoyance of being dispatched on Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Bush
The Bush name of traitors rings loud.
Exactly my reaction. And the soon to be super-duper battleship ”Trump” will find no other than galley slaves to serve on the ship.
The USS Obama is a barge, I believe. I have seen a picture with a donkey on it.
The war is always unpredictable. The single operations like few months back in VZ are a different beast. Not sure they tried but it seems they did at the beginning of the year to do a regime change but that did not succeed. Obviously they could not find Iranian version of Ukrainian Azov faction that would go along their plans to control the country. I guess the cultural differences were too big.
Anyone else wondering why there is no refutation of Trump's messaging that we are "clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz"? Best I can tell there are ZERO US naval ships "in the strait". If there were, it would be shooting ducks on a pond for Iran. And if Iran is unable or unwilling to do so, then all the bluster and talk about where this war might be headed is for naught. This is a very important point and one in which I wish Simp would have analyzed in this post... Chip
Rather obvious, no?
Phelan convinced Trump to go for a huuuuge battleship configuration in a high profile manner. The estimated cost using Phelan's approach could have built a dozen destroyers instead. Phelan wanted to use conventional purchasing arrangements instead of reviewing a possible new approach to objectives, design and construction.
Hegseth wanted to change the entire ethos of the American military not more of the same only bigger. Once Hegseth convinced Trump that he had got bad advice from Phelan that left the Presidency exposed as a result, Trump told Hegseth ....you are the Secretary of War, do what you have to...... Hegseth won the pissing match.
We are seriously saying because Iran has some speed boats that this means their navy remains almost fully intact and a potential threat as if Trump simply lied and their ships were not sent to the ocean floor?
I don't think Iran ever had a need for big battle ships, unlike the US who wants to control the world.
Agree. It's their minisubs and fast attack boats which are essential to their layered A2/AD strategy for the Strait of Hormuz.
Former SEAL and author Matt Bracken explains why naval surface combatants are obsolete in the 21st Century for projecting power and the death knell of gunboat diplomacy sounded a century ago.
https://steelcutter.substack.com/p/the-great-energy-world-war
I tried to get a loan from the Fed so I can ‘Upgrade To Founding'. They sent me back a polite note saying that zero loan will be issued because I am posting on a politically incorrect site. In addition they told me to pay my $160,000 + student loan in case I engage in any activity that produces income. I told them that presently I am standing by a freeway exit with 2 bags of oranges to sell which I purchased from the nearest supemarket and as soon as I make a sale I will immediately notify them.
You're doing this all wrong. Plant orange tree, then sell oranges.
My original plan called for buying an apple for a quarter, shining it and selling it for fifty cents and to repeat the process indefinitely until my grandpa dies and leaves me a few million dollars. He said he has no plans to die so I switched to oranges.
ROFLMAO! Five star sarcasm!!
pay your 160+ student loan.... freeloader
I almost sold a full bag of oranges but the potential customer realized half of them were already rotting so he drove off. I am trying real hard, anything for the Fed. I even decided to educate myself with an essay on the Fed by Ezra Pound. I do not mean to complain but there was a single copy of this thing available on the whole planet – on the other side of the planet. It is like somebody is censoring (rather effectively) the greatest American intellectual of the 20th century – in America. And one more thing, don’t be a retard and a GangStalker.
Since that is about all their Navy consisted of -- yeah. Trump's lying.
I suppose I should acknowledge that the US torpedoed an unarmed Iranian ship returning from India. The Iris Delta has a crew of only 180 so it wasn't a very big ship. IIRC, there are still two others left.
Ukraine has zero ships left, yet the Russian BSF is bottled in the eastern third of the Black Sea
The shore has a huge advantage over fleets these days.
The big worry is why Iran has not sunk any US ships yet. It was an absolute must to do that, and they have the technical capabilty, but they didn't do it.
That means someone is still playing escalation management long past the moment total war should have been waged, and it is not a huge step from there to Delcy-style treason
Iran has been testing its equipment multiple times, noting US capacities & upgrading its own excellent missile & intel capacities with Russia & China gaming the moment. Sounds more like the Iranian spider inviting the American flies into the proximity of its web for the right coordinated moment of multiple vectors.
ROLE OF THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION: Its sad how USrael & NATO members are such INTELLECTUAL COWARDS afraid to enter into Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Public Dialogues. While hidden diplomacy has a small role it must always be combined with formal public dialogue/ 'debate' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight') in this case for the role of 8 billion people in the resolution of the issue of super-power murder of innocents as well as the energy economy which facilitates it. When 8 billion people each adjust their personal economies & lifestyles towards what they have witnessed in the verbal & physical engagement of international leaders, then arms & war become useless.
"I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness." Mohandas Gandhi in Harijan, 15-7-'39, p. 201.
Fair exchange Cowardly nothing of substance parties such as Israel & puppet Netanyahu/Trump Repugs or Demons & their fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') amnesic Oligarch overlords, don’t respond to formal public dialogues. Attacked nations such-as Iran need to respond, as-they-are, with sophisticated intelligence & bombs.
The rest of us 8 billion people, however can issue challenges to all Jews & Zionists to engage in Both-sides-now dialogues, published locally or on-line in-order-to capture the public narrative & thus culturally force expectations & acceptance into Civil Society, the Oligarch owned Political-class & minions to respond for-sake-of their vacuous reputations. Equal-time is important because they have to put their feet in their own mouths publicly. Common Monologues on any side do not convince anyone.
INTELLECTUAL COWARDICE OR TRUTH & RECONCILIATION? European Ashkenazi could’ve & still can engage with their Palestinian neighbours & governments in BOTH-SIDES-NOW, Equal-time, Recorded & Published DIALOGUES in-order-to lay the foundation for understanding, collaboration, working-relationships & Conflict-resolution with Palestinians, Iranians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Lebanese, Libyans, Afghanis & the rest-of-the-world. No bloodshed required. Refusal to engage in formal dialogue is intellectual-cowardice, although common in our western Oligarch institutional MONOLOGUES.
Cowardly people find it easier to kill, eliminating mental challenge than to be honest in dialogue & thus encountering the depth of themselves & life. Zionists have only proved their cowardice. Indigenous people refer to this as COUNCIL-PROCESS, Socrates as 'Dialectic-Rights, Mohandas Gandhi as 'Satyagraha' = 'Truth-Search' as-part-of India's 'Swadeshi' (Hindi 'Indigenous' aka 'Self-sufficiency') movement as the Economic Engine which asserted Independence.
BOTH-SIDES-NOW Formal Dialogues or Dialectics mimic the functioning of human mind. Both eyes for example see in 2-dimensions, but the images are joined in the Neural Cortex for their differences in-order-to construct a 3-D working model of the world we live & act in. All senses of Smell, Hearing & Kinetic body movement from our 2 arms, legs & sides add 'dialectic' ('both-sided') dimensions to the world we perceive.
When people are recorded & held responsible for what they say, reputation is put out into the public & hence becomes more collaborative & engaging. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
TRANSFORMING SOCIAL MEDIA FROM MONO TO DIALOGUE All people can bring back formal Council Process into our families, communities, work, stores, government, 'media' (L. 'medium' = 'middle' or the obligatory interactive presentation of both sides). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-communication-converting-social-media-from-mono-to-dialogue-libya
If any US ship is sunk, the USA would retaliate with nuclear weapons immediately.
Iran is afraid of that option.
The western rules are simple, the retaliation is maximal, up to genocide. These rules are perfected in the centuries of colonial domination.
Culture of Looting
Cotra , Anna , Ron : CAN WE IMAGINE HAVING A MURDEROUS MENTALLY SICK VIOLENT NEIGHBOUR LIKE THIS, MOVE IN NEXT DOOR? My heart goes out to the Middle-east & the rest of the Islamic world for having put up with such grotesque violent human abuse for 125 years.
72.2% of the lead Manhattan Project scientists (1939-46) developing the Nuclear bombs were Jewish, so transfer of the technology to Dimona in Negev Israel was not only planned earlier on & seamlessly transferred from US to Israel as part of Oligarch Jewish plans for empire hegemony. This nuclear bomb threat has been used for >75 years now from 1948 on to impose viscious Ashkenazi Jewish (some of my family in 3 branches) colonial supremacy on its neighbours.
COLONIAL ISRAEL'S 'SAMPSON OPTION' THREATENING NUCLEAR BOMBS early 1940s MANHATTAN PROJECT NUCLEAR BOMB DEVELOPMENT (way before Dimona) From the Manhattan-Project' Oppenheimer or such-as Julius & Ethel Rosenberg on down, 72.2% = 13 of 18 main Scientists (Google search) working on the development of the Atomic & Plutonium Bombswere Ashkenazi Jewish (some of my family in 3 branches). Essentially fake $$Oligarch directed & controlled, transfer of the Manhattan technology to the Negev Dimona Reactor in Israel isn’t in the hands of the American nor world peoples.
"Permi
None of the western empire 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') colonial nations are sovereign nor democratic. Manhattan Project scientists (J = Jew or significant Jewish family roots & associations) as-a small representative sample. Hans Bethe (J), J. RobertOppenheimer (J), Enrico Fermi (J), James Franck (J), Richard Feynman (J), Leo Szilard (J), Glenn Seaborg, Leslie Groves, Klaus Fuchs, Edward Teller (J),Albert Einstein (J), Ernest O. Lawrence, Niels Bohr-Adler (J), Joseph Rotblat (J), Robert Serber (J), Eugene Wigner (J), Robert Bacher (J), Aurthur Compton https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/People/Scientists/scientists.html Write-up on each Manhattan Project Scientist
Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1744 to 1812, kindly warned us all publicly, "Permit me to issue the currency of a nation & I care not who makes its laws", combined personally with "It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it", attributed to Upton Sinclair. Cicero 106 to 43 BC wrote, "Nothing is so well fortified that; it can’t be taken with money".
With fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') & violent Oligarchy ('oli' = 'few' + 'archy' = 'rule-of') genociding humanity & destroying the biosphere, all so they can fulfill their Jetson (1970-80s cartoon) vision of living in bubbles on lifeless planets, peoples-unity is crucial. It’s not enough to analyze, protest, lobby & bitch, but to implement Circular Relational Economy among ourselves, families & communities. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
We already have the power among us all as bequeathed by all humanity's ancestral 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') practice of organizing CIRCULAR-ECONOMY in the intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale of the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village) architecture where 70% of people live today. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC-DEMOCRACY & subset political systems. Economic Democracy in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village), specialized Production-Society-Guilds & time-based equivalency-accounting on the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
This guy gets it. Its rare to find someone here that actually understands power dynamics. Everyone is smoking some la-la nonsense.
yes. Iranians are dehumanized like Serbs, Russians or Iraqis. For example, EU cannot even condemn the killing of 165 girls in that school. Nobody asks for such condemnation in EU. No university or NGO. The west is so unanimous. The Warship pact communist parties were never so unanimous.
I find it interesting that so many people are willing to believe that any commander in his right mind would order an attack on a school like that
the public relations following such an attack are a nightmare.
"If any US ship is sunk, the USA would retaliate with nuclear weapons immediately."
Total, absolute tripe
The US has a "no first use" policy which has not been modified AFAIK
Why are you posting false info here?
On Wikipedia you shall find:
Countries without a no-first-use policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_first_use
Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States,[38] France,[39] and North Korea say that they will use nuclear weapons against either nuclear or non-nuclear states only in the case of invasion or other attack against their territory or against one of their allies.
good enough for me.
so we can ditch all the useless speculation about Trump using nuclear weapons at will..
And the bullshit about his “generals withholding the nuclear codes from him.”
The president can’t just “launch the missiles” because he is having a bad day.
It takes teamwork
It seems that Iran want to negotiate now. Even they are afraid of US.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/flurry-reports-signal-breakthrough-us-iran-getting-back-table-pakistan-third-us
Flurry Of Reports Signal 'Breakthrough' In US, Iran Getting Back To The Table In Pakistan, As Third US Carrier Arrives
That is logical. Most of the Iranians want American dream.
Cotra
You haven't the faintest idea who and what most of Iranians are, let alone what a three thousand year old civilization's citizens likely want.
Your profile says you are seriously interested in psychology and specifically the degradation of society in a high tech world, yet you state categorically that is what every body in the world wants. To live like you. So much so that in the case of Iran, they must welcome being being bombed by you if it bring its about.
All societies and all nations eventually converge to some dark techno feudalistic hole such as the one I live in. I live like an night insect in the "wonderful neoliberal garden", I do not like. So I live like a cockroach, I admit. In the neoliberal order in technological society you can only live as cockroach.
But most of Iranians want to live in the garden. There are many of them also in USA.
The Iranians are not some Übermenschen. IRGC currently prevents them from surrendering. Why. Because IRGC guards some strong ideology, and conrols the gallows.
But the rest ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo
"Johnny's in America, Johnny looks up at the stars
Johnny combs his hair and Johnny wants pussy in cars"
David Bowie – I'm Afraid of Americans
You saw some libtard Iranian in Serbia, now all Iranians are like that? Like libtard Russians that you see in Serbia, so all Russians are libtards.
Sophisticated psychological analysis.
"Everybody wants..." muh, muh
Every Iranian wants to like be Pahlavi, right?
"🤡 “CLOWN PRINCE” SPEAKS FROM GLASS CUBE AFTER INCIDENT
“The Clown Prince is speaking from a glass cube after he got tomato sauce thrown on him the other day.”"
https://t.me/ukraine_watch/59951
lmao
When I say everybody I mean majority.
Do you see a massive rejection of Hollywood products around the world these days?
Do you see less Chinese tourists in Toscana these days?
The world still adores and imitates the West. It is an inherent self destruction feature of Homo Sapiens.
hey Alyosha....
muh muh doesn't mean anything to english-speakers
if you want to make "cow" noises... try "moo, moo."
otherwise you are just wasting your time
kraut
The only thing that really matters is if energy is flowing out of the gulf at normal levels. If Iran is negotiating and energy is not flowing, then the negotiations are as useful as combat. Blockage of supply from the gulf is the weapon.
The great lesson to oil producers is the need to develop large storage caverns where 100's of millions of barrels can be stored eliminating the need to shut down fields potentially damaging them.
If Iran is faced with the possibility of diminishing their oil potential over the longer term, that represents the leverage, perhaps to compromise.
I don't know enough about petroleum engineering to understand how serious the issue is with shutting in production. I dont believe it's as black and white of some reports make it out to be. There are lots of tricks that have been developed over 100 years of oil production for reconditioning and restoring fields.
Making shit up, again?
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/25/trump-abruptly-cancels-kushner-witkoff-pakistan-trip-00892033
"President Donald Trump on Saturday abruptly canceled a planned trip by special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to Pakistan, pulling back from what had been billed just a day earlier as a potential jump-start to fragile Iran talks." lmao
Let me see your cute salto mortale now. :D
If Iran had the "technical capability" to hit a US warship, they would have done so while the US was bombing them.
they obviously do NOT have this capability... they could get lucky, but hitting a moving ship is NOT the same as hitting an airfield or a building
you IMAGINING that Iran has this capability is not the same as them having it
> as if Trump simply lied
Noooo, Trump wouldn't lie to us! No Sir, no way, never!
Sooner the world economy gets wrecked, the better we are off. You want it to keep going more and more inflated and have worse later?
Alas,the poorest will be the main victims.
The united states of Caligula...
The DisUnited States of A. = DUSA
FUSA - Former United States of America.
"Donigula’s thorax bombinated with the usual chirrup of lies"
Artful...simply artful.
the word chirrup is too nice though. Better burp
You are spot-on, Victor. That sentence is a gem--a keeper
Love it.
Positively Vonnegutian !
BREAKING | The Russian Foreign Ministry claims that Europe is allegedly preparing to seize Kaliningrad. (from Visioner on X)
Had Russia taken control of Ukraine, Europe might not have shown such eagerness to take control of Kaliningrad.
As I said before, most of Russia's problems stem from its failure to control Ukraine promptly.
Russia's problems keep piling up from its SMO failure, and I'm keeping track.
How many dead and injured Russian soldiers are we at, while the lines of friction have barely budged?
Why is the internet cut out in Russia that so many Russians relied on?
Why do citizens face jail sentences for rightly criticizing the SMO's failure?
How many more years of fighting and dying are Russians expected to endure?
Russian citizens are growing restless about this endless war.
Why does Russia keep supplying oil through Ukraine?
That oil fuels Ukraine's war machine, compliments of Moscow.
Already, the failed SMO is Russia's Vietnam by multiples.
Russia's SMO is so stagnant through WW1 positional, attritional warfare without significant outcomes, hardly anyone ever talks about it anymore, as if it's forgotten by the outside world. But Russian citizens care a lot. There's likely over 250,000 casualties. A lot of wives, mothers, and children whose husbands, sons, and fathers have died are breaking families apart. For what?
Meanwhile, Zelensky and friends roam freely, unafraid, emboldened and ever so defiant, never having to run for cover. Life is good for Zelensky and friends while Russian soldiers wait for the next drone to hit them from their permanent foxhole coffins.
And what do Russian citizens have to look forward to?
Well, more war, bigger war after Europe steps in, no matter the size of the force.
By failing to act decisively and control Ukraine, Russia will have amplified its problems 5 fold:
A never-ending path of death and destruction that doesn't even come close to compensating for the territory it gained.
And what if Europe does take Kaliningrad?
What if Europe takes Transnistria with only 3,000 Russian troops defending?
Who then becomes the attacker or the defender?
If only the Kremlin had shown resolve and actually done what it had to do to secure its western flank and instilled fear into the enemy by controlling Ukraine long ago. Europe wouldn't have gotten so bold, including the tiny Baltic. No one fears the Russian army because the Kremlin holds it back because they're to eager to resume business with the West at the cost of expendable Russian soldiers and their families.
https://youtu.be/fd16sNr9T2Q?t=2
You have a big mouth about Russia’s suffering but I can only see EU and Us in agony. This ain’t symptomatic but rather pathological Zelensky’s oligarch best mate just bought a 500 million appartement in Monaco, the most expensive ever, and we EU are gonna sponsor such “deals” with 80 billion pocket money for the big guy, it’s not like that that you win wars, you’re begging on your knees please Putin nuke us. Another point Pakistan has a deal with Turkey, when needed they can borrow one of their nukes, and I suppose not against Russia but against Israel and all his EU minions, because after Iran they’re next on the list.
>You have a big mouth about Russia’s suffering but I can only see EU and Us in agony.
What agony? Are apartment buildings bombed thousand kilometers west of the Ukrainian border and is the air hazardous to breathe near freshly struck industrial facilities in Europe? No.
But that is the daily reality of Russia west of the Urals
Exactly, GM. Russia, and the Russians in eastern Ukraine, have been subjected to terrorism, massacres, and assassinations from Ukraine for years. Gasses from the US's biological warfare labs in Ukraine leaked into Russia, harming many.
So then why do some say it is Russia's fault that the EU may be planning to attack Kalingrad?
Oh brother Russia’s getting stinking rich from the oil embargo, while the majority in EU cannot even pay the rent for their houses or their taxes. Been lately in a supermarket to buy some chocolate, gone up a double and quality the is half less, and more essentials products following within less than 6 months. The daily reality in Russia is indeed troublesome but you wanna change and take your luck in Ukraine?
Russian oligarchs are getting stinking rich.
Ordinary people only get bombs on their heads
They were Russian oligarchs, now 2 million live in Israel and the elite oligarchs whisper in Trump ears to bomb Iran to the Stone Age, it’s all in the family.
And what about the Donbass Russians that had to do a runner eastwards? Are they still planning on ever going back to their towns and villages and destroyed properties, or have they already come to terms with the real possibility that their best option is to start afresh in wherever they’ve been moved to? By the time the Donbass is liberated their kids will be grown up and won’t probably want to go back.
No need for ad hominem, Mr. Guido Linguinie.
Now, back to the kitchen and cook me up something special.
And don't forget to do the laundry before you leave, thanks.
😂
You say no need for ad hominem and then proceed to insult. You must Westerner.
I didn't insult. I taught a lesson.
How about you wait for Russia article and comment there? lmao
I do like your humour, Alyo.
Sometimes an over, eager pony simply cannot wait to perform that one trick
Genius, Chevy.
Time for regime change, failing that, lessons might be learned from Iran and the Houthis.
Don't you get tired of repeating the same position over and over again. Why are you so anxious for the war to expand. The US has certainly punched Iran in the face, did Iran cower in the corner? What makes you believe that a stronger attack on Europe won't do the same.
The fact is, I'm not repeating.
I'm adding content to support my initial claim.
I do have other comments saved for next time, John.
All my writing you talk about the same topic, but you miss my point, mate.
Controlling Ukraine would dissuade Europe's aggressive intent.
Whew! Later, John.
Your arguments would be more convincing if they were grounded in reality. At the outset of this war Russia was obviously in no position to defeat Ukraine militarily. It doesn't matter how many times you repeat the Russia should destroy Ukraine line that is not grounded in reality. Russia is fighting a totally different conflict. It seems you can't comprehend this point. Their major goal is to continue development according to their plan. They will win this by expanding their industrial base, developing new mlitary technical measures and keeping their population happy.
Abcdefg. Absolutely agree.
Denis would have defeated Ukraine in 2022 by having a completely different balance of forces. Using forces they just didn't have.
Exactly, reality is a bitch, ungrounded opinions a curse.
No doubt I would have, John.
Because Russia only had eight years to prepare.
lol
>did Iran cower in the corner?
Iran didn't, but Russia certainly did.
>What makes you believe that a stronger attack on Europe won't do the same.
So NATO can bomb Russia freely and Russia must under no circumstances fight back because otherwise NATO will start bombing Russia?
I like me some circular self-defeatist logic...
You keep dragging that poor horse out to flog it. There is zero chance the Europeans would attempt a kinetic attack on Kalingrad. You are confusing information war with the kinetics.
I'm not confusing anything, Alphabet.
I'm just relaying information from the Russian Foreign Ministry
My agenda is truth, no more.
Getting caught up in information warfare won't get you closer to the truth. Far from it.
Maybe.
the russian foreign ministry has simply responded to clear and overt threats from NATO military officers to occupy Kaliningrad
NATO started it
Another blame it on Russia rant when talking about Iran. The British keep pushing for Russian overextended. They need to see Europe burning to sleep at night.
One could say that the Russian and Iranian conflict is related by facing the same enemy.
I see it as one big war broken into separate battlefields. I think I'm done talking about Russia, Yoni. What will be, will be.
So true, Denis. Cant add anything to you writing. Other than it was off-topic, but Simplicius need a reminder or two after nearly one month without an article about the precious SMO.
April 17
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/serious-escalation-russian-mod-implies
three very short, articles since Mars 26. During which time tremendous damage has been done on Russia.
We are in a period of tremendous damage globally but are now beginning to see the outline of the future world order. Empire has been slapped down (twice now) it's hard to see how Russia, given it's vast wealth and tightening BRICS alliances doesn't fare much better than most other countries.You and others confuse the tactical with the strategic. Russia is in a strong position that only improves over time.
BRICS alliance is a joke. Russia is of course Russia - it stands where it stands. You, however, moves freely around every subject or topic without ever discuss it. You invent new ones over and over. That is both tactic and strategic from you.
BRICS isn't an alliance, it's a group attempting to buffer itself from a declining Empire. And not sure what you mean by me inventing new topics? You said Simplicius hasn't posted on the SMO for a month. I provided his article from last week. You seem to making shit up, no? Then you point out damage to Russia in an Iran thread. I'm pointing out that we are in a global conflict. Russia, Iran, Venezuela it's all part of WWIII. Empire isn't having any success, just doing what it does, expensive wars with little or no gain. How can this not be good for Russia, having bountiful natural resources and China as a partner. Step back Mickey, it's all part of the same puzzle.
BRICS truly are a joke... some relatively poor nations with shaky economies in many cases, trying to find a way to get out from under SWIFT.
if Trump reintegrates Russia into SWIFT, they will be left high and dry
Horseshit. Quit with the concern propaganda. This is the third or fourth iteration of the Ukrainian army, is it not? Literally millions have perished. Attrition warfare has served its purpose. Russians know how to fight a war and win, even a war so difficult as this one. The European countries currently attacking or threatening to attack Russia will know when they have pushed Russia too far. Except at that point it will be too late for them to avoid a disastrous result that will devastate their countries’ military potential and economies.
We will likely witness Russia achieve its military objectives in the Ukraine by the end of the year.
Just one more year.
Safe and effective, huh?
😂
I have been wishing for that for a few years now.... maybe this year will be different but the europeans are determined to drive their own countries into the ground maintaining Ukraine... so who knows?
Complaining is only thing Russians can do now.
So they are like you now? Imagine
yes. and it is very sad.
Regarding Iran, nobody has enough hard facts to make any realistic projections about outcomes. We are all deliberately being kept in an information vacuum. Therefore articles such as the above are a waste of everyone's time.
Regarding Ukraine, the following gets lost in the conversation, in my estimation deliberately so, because the “Putin has the perfect strategy” crowd do not have any viable response:
What were Russia's stated goals when it first started the SMO...
"The main aims of the special military operation are the protection of the DPR and LPR, forcing Ukraine to a neutral status, demilitarization and denazification of its state and social life, elimination of threats to Russia emanating from Ukrainian territory due to its development by NATO countries. The operation is not directed against the people of Ukraine.” https://pekin.mid.ru/en/news/about_the_special_military_operation_in_ukraine/
Someday when Russia creeps up to the last square centimeter of Donbass, they will still at that point have achieved only one of those stated goals. Is that so hard to grasp? What happens then? Change of strategy? Suddenly it's time for Russia to get serious about 'big arrow' military offensives (regardless of the outcome, Ukraine has already surprised Russia with one in Bryansk, so such a thing IS militarily possible). Take Odessa, take Kiev, kill that miserable Zelenskiy and his henchmen, change the Ukrainian constitution, make sure Oreshniks fall on any attempt at terrorist activity?
If all that comes to pass, the question is: why the hell didn't Russia accomplish all that a long time ago? Theoretically Russia has ALWAYS been stronger than Ukraine, even at the start of the SMO. But I guess Russia thinks that such an advantage didn't conform to Marquess of Queensberry Rules, instead Russia had to bide its time so that the West could ramp up its MIC and support Ukraine in a 'fair' fight.
My God, dealing with the emasculated assumptions of the illogical commenters here is infinitely tiring. They never understand, they never get the point, their heads must be made of cast iron.
Exactly, Eric. Very well said.
You get it.
Others who are still in Russia are playing 5D chess mode, are still validating and refusing to accept the reality of the situation without looking at the tremendous cost in lives and equipment with no strategic gain, while their enemy is further emboldened to expand and resist. It didn't have to be this way, and no one is held accountable.
"My God, dealing with the emasculated assumptions of the illogical commenters here is infinitely tiring. They never understand, they never get the point, their heads must be made of cast iron." Exactly.
Cognitive dissonance, how does it work?
What!?
Like a deer caught in the headlights, good man.
“Russians are restless…” - Is this a conclusion of Ms. Pevchikh in service to MI6? It’s rather hysterical.
Russians do not want wars and Russians do not do carpet bombings.
Ukrainians are brotherly Slavic people captured by zio-banderites armed and financed by banking cabal.
Your judaized mentality does not compute with Russian trust in fairness and mercy. Banking dynasties and various compradors need desperately to get a collateral for the crushing Ponzi scheme run by Vampire Squid. They have been planning to attack Russia and China anyway, the enormous loss of human life be dammed.
Look at Syria and Gaza, little Sarah (aka denis). These cannibals want a strong Russian response to mobilize what is left of European resources and to destroy Russian civilization. The desperate zionized idiots are prepared to use nukes.
Time and real resources are on the side of Russia, China, and Iran. .
Excuses, excuses, Madame.
4 years and counting.
Obviously, none of your family is dying on the battlefield.
And you mock me?
Look in the mirror, lady.
Take your vax like a good sycophant, huh.
I find it funny how people focus so much on the tactical aspects of the Ukraine conflict. Even here the Russian are winning but some choose to proselytize regardless. What is never mentioned is the strategic shifts occuring in the global order. All, or nearly all, ongoing conflicts are an attempt to contain the rising powers. This has now proven to be impossible. The old Mahanian doctrine of controlling SLOC has failed. First in the Red Sea, now in Hormuz. Empire has an old toolkit for a new war. No amount of waffling by the "Russia has a failing strategy" crowd changes the failures of the old paradigm. Real defence is now available to all countries. They just need to align with BRICS.
Excellent overview. Thank you.
Honorable people don't want to serve Old Ones like Hegsethoth.
Honor is for fools.
The lunatic self ordained Messiah of the satanic cult would rather burn the world than accept defeat...but wait, he was perfectly fine getting humiliated by Ansarallah.
Are the Americans just going to watch this s**t show with popcorn or do something about this moron?
Since the people we elected to Congress won't do anything, our next move is the midterms. The number one thing that will decide votes - Do you support Israel?
If so, no votes.
Sit It Out
Or Own The Louts
Who do you plan on voting for that will be any different than the people that are there now? Yeah, they'll promise to stop the war and impeach Trump, but they'll just put on Kabuki Theater like the Democrats did in Trump's first term.
When votes are counted on unverified, proprietary machines manufactured by corporations owned by billionaires -- the billionaires always win.
This jewish zionist billionaires....
I prefer Finkelstein's definition of Zionist. He had a long interview on "Bad Faith" recently where he repeated it.
"If you have the money in your pocket to get to Israel and you don't go, you aren't a Zionist."
I think this allows us to create categories to better identify who we are up against because we don't have to bring Israel into the discussion. We can talk about the "Jewish Mob" and the "Jewish Billionaires" and leave the fanatical Israelis out of the picture.
My Congressman is Randy Fine. I will vote for whoever runs against him, I don't care who it is.
So you’ll get another Congressman who is a Randy Fine clone.
While it is true that many are running for office insisting that they have turned down AIPAC money, there are other ways to get the bribe money that most people who run for office are really seeking.
If ya feel like voting is going to help, then vote. I gave it up.
And they will lie to obtain votes. Then go suck shitrael's dick.
Voting, hahahahaha.
Probably non violent resistance along the lines of Gandhi would be appropriate and might work.
The problem is, his satyagraha model specifically calls for me being willing to suffer for my beliefs, eg get beaten with clubs, jailed and so on, as Gandhi and his followers were. An I that willing, or am I content to watch it all slide into the fire of Mordor.
Anyway it isn't and never will be about you, it is and only ever will be about what suffering I'm personally ready to take on. Which btw is, virtually none. So the world will remain f-ed bcs of me
You are right. Even a little bit of suffering is unbearable for us, and death, the ultimate resistance, unthinkable. Voting and such has repeatedly shown to be useless.
Listened to this podcast with The Duran and Robert Barnes. RB usually talks me back out of the rabbit hole a bit (Simplicius does as well). Said Trump is slipping mentally. I have to admit it does make a lot of sense…..Good interview
https://www.youtube.com/live/XNq8TjkMeSc?si=qhUKfeYcNE5XNSWf
Barnes is always good value, love the cigars 😁
I have a simple question... I actually watched the video of Bessent. and Trump included in this piece, and it's obvious they're just dissembling and lying with every sentence they utter. Only the diehard cultists (as Chris Hedges has well-framed it) who still think Trump is playing 3-D chess would believe anything he's saying..
Why is not everyone and all other MSM not constantly mocking and pointing out all their flip flops and outright lies? All those military folks 'resigning'... and the implied mutiny on the Gerald Ford (how did they get the ship going again, did they fly in new crew to replace the exhausted one?)... the empire is floundering like never before... it's been quite a sight.
The main stream media is controlled. It doesn't matter if it leans left or right, there is a lane they won't cross, or else!
Unfortunately, there are still people that get their news from the MSM, and believe it's credible. Gullible, naive, dumb, or maybe just not all that interested.
The MSM is owned by Jewish Billionaires.
six of them, and they hate you: how the richest men in history bought your mind and what they plan to do with - https://www.thewisewolf.club/p/six-billionaires-own-the-media-and-internet
Well, the "Wise Wolf" isn't going to be the one who is going to persuade me. It was all drivel for the first 5 minutes. He was going on and on about how smart he was and how dumb everyone else is. It would have been nice to know the article he was suppose to be reading.
A quick web search of "the 6 corporations that own the media" brings up many articles that are much more informative.
Sumner Redstone Jew
Bob Iger Jew
Jeff Bewkes Not a Jew.
Brian L. Roberts Jew
Rupert Murdoch Not a Jew
Kazuo Hirai Not a Jew
I (unfortunately) chose this one which is out of date, but "good enough" to examine ownership.
It is "interesting" to see how the 6 have morphed into other entities.
This list doesn't have Paramount in it. But National Amusements somehow became Paramount Skydance owned by Larry Ellisons son. Skydance is suppose to be buying Warner.
https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/
thanks!
"The main stream media is controlled. It doesn't matter if it leans left or right, there is a lane they won't cross, or else!"
Savannah Guthrie can confirm. Stay on the reservation or maybe your mom gets a shallow grave in the desert. Old ladies in Tucson don't wander off without a trace. Doesn't happen.
The crew on the Gerald Ford isn’t exhausted nor affected of the fire but all their toilets are overflowing from the salmonella and the junk rations they have to swallow. Boots on the ground my God, Germans died of Dysentery in WWII in freezing Russia, Americans in Iran will die of dehydration if not of shell shock of the drones that buzz their ears.
nice fantasy
keep dreaming
As I have heard it’s even worse, waiting time for the toilets is more than 1 hour, they have to wear napkins now. This is reality
Hated "Conservative" or no, he is serving the goals the MarxMerdia was created to support.
"Why is not everyone and all other MSM not constantly mocking and pointing out all their flip flops and outright lies?"
Because the people of influence and authority are happy for Trump to do their dirty work.
Hell if I get it.
It seems like getting rid of Israel is the solution. Maybe if the EU didn't have its head up its ass, it would be planning to cut off Israel instead of Russia.
It's been that way since 1948.
The only country that can do that realistically is Russia, but it too is captured right now.
Wrong, correct answer: North Korea
The EU is also controlled by the zionist entity and its billionaire class, as is its lamestream media.
that must be so fun traveling across the water in those iranian boats.
Probably more fun before the war.
are you kidding ? These guys have war fever....its adrenaline. I saw a video yesterday of the Iranian Navy guys climbing a ladder to get onto one of the tankers they apprehended....wow....takes a lot of courage.
Ann,
If you owned that tanker would you have a ladder hanging over the side ? They are lowered for Pilots only . Somewhat suspicious.
Nothing suspicious here.
Those small boats are equipped with missiles and you will bring down the ladder to avoid bringing your ship and crew in danger since you are operating in a war zone anyway. The only right thing for a captain to do is to surrender the ship.
Absolutely! The ship and cargo are insured, not the captain's problem. The safety of his crew is the captain's primary responsibility. I've skippered some, and it is a heavy responsibility.
Cheryl,
Their insurance would be void when trying this - that's why they don't try to run the blockade like this did.. The USA blew up the engine room on the ship it seized to prevent it getting away. The boat that the clip showed only had a machine gun . In the past the Iranians have hit ships that have attempted to run the blockade . It looks like footage of an inspection rather than an attack . Just sayin...
"I saw a video the other day."
any idea how OLD that (publicity) video was??????
you use five question marks Is that supposed to be interpreted as to how stupid I am ? That video was posted by some Iranian channel. Maybe they have only done that operation once ever so it really matters that I stupidly thought it was recent
We used to have PT boats. 50 knots? Looking at their construction details is fun.
This piece sidelines the fact that carpet bombing Iran, whether or not that is a good idea, is not a one way street. If he restarts that, Iran takes out the Gulf States bolting Israel onto that, and the Bab El Mandeb is closed... for starters.
It is not a question of whether he will go here or not, as a way out of this conflict. If only eh? This is one 'strait' that is closed.
It is my fervent hope that the Iranian response is concentrated on Israel.
Here's some analysis of the mind set inside the GCC. If Israel is destroyed, the tribes will replace the family that rules.
https://www.asiaticglobalorder.com
Iran cannot bomb Israel without suffering potentially nuclear retaliation.
They can however destroy Arab infrastructure pretty much with impunity.
And destroying the Arabs destroys the World Economy and the petro-dollar, so that's a war winning strategy.
The operative word here is "potentially".
There's nothing to stop Israel now from starting its next surprise attack with nuclear weapons.
The Iranians have already shown that they can destroy Dimona. If Israel's nukes are destroyed on the ground, then there will be no nuclear attack.
Destroying the world's economies is not a win. Iran does not list it as any of the 10 points they are trying to negotiate with Trump.
One of those is an end to all attacks on Iran and its allies. Iran's allies include Hamas and Hezbollah. Can you imagine Israel giving up Gaza and its push into Lebanon? I can't. Israel is the new Nazi Germany populated by people suffering under a mass psychosis. Finkelstein called them "Homicidal Maniacs".
China effectively dealt with the fanatical muslim terrorists (ETIM) in Xinjiang. I don't see how the same kind of reeducation might be implemented in Israel. That leaves complete destruction of the state of Israel. This doesn't mean all Jews have to leave. Jews live in peace in Tehran. But war crime tribunals are a must and Netanyahu must be executed.
Bombing the GCC is not in Iran's best interests. Raheb has explained in many of her reports how the Priests are moving to remove the monarchies from power. In Bahrain, the majority are Shia.
Israel has threatened Türkiye. Iraq has a considerable militia force that is willing to march on Israel. Jordan's king may be removed. If Iran concentrates on Israel, the entire middle east could join in.
I like my scenario better.
How interesting that so many news outlets will talk about the 10 point plan but then select which ones to talk about.
"Iran cannot bomb Israel without suffering potentially nuclear retaliation."
WTF are you talking about????
Iran's Air Force is not up to the task, and Iran has been "bombing israel" with missiles at will.
and furthermore, Israel can itself be attacked with nukes by other countries who may not take a nuke attack on Iran lightly...
so Israel needs to watch its own ass
No one mentioned airforces.
My point is that Iran can bomb the Arabs with impunity and achieve real economic results.
Whereas, If they focus on Israel at some point the Israelis will exercise the Samson Option.
And who do you imagine will nuke Israel on Iran's behalf, given the almost certain US response?
" carpet bombing"
Hey look...it's Nazi Week on the History Channel!
as it is, every week.
No, H. It is just carpet bombing.
You've hit a nerve recently, as all of a sudden there is skepticism about your reporting - so it must be that the Maga folks are now in the anger phase of grief, as their whole house is collapsing.
Hired bots or trolls to infiltrate places where the truth is reported online? The mission is to create doubt in the minds of the readers and commenters.
Most readers here are seasoned geopolitical observers with multiple info streams... while we have our own biases, at least we're aware of them. Unlike the mindless trolls.
I would say they’d be more effective elsewhere, but then they’d be more effective elsewhere
"Most readers here are seasoned geopolitical observers"
ha ha
you have GOT to be kidding... most of the people here embarass themselves with every single post
Fun fact, kubler Ross's later position was the five stages model which she originated was misapplied. First, originally it was specifically about coming to terms with terminal illness, not grief in general. Secondly the grieving process is neither linear not predictable.
A better imho model is James and Friedman, where grief is unique since each experience of each individual is unique, but there is an approachable process for processing it.
Not sure where that does or doesn't leave maga.
This is buyer's remorse, plain and simple. People were sucked in by image and/or the poor quality of the competing product.
A lot of sensible Republicans wanted someone, anyone, other than a former NY Democrat, but had to fall in line behind the great pretender. Now they will have to create max distance in order to get re-elected.