As could be expected, immediately upon receipt of “authorization” from Biden, Ukraine reportedly launched an ATACMS strike on the Russian 67th GRAU depot in Bryansk region.
The idea that 'Pop' stars can represent 'authenticity' is absurd - the most over produced carefully curated and hyped of products which seek the lowest possible common denominator is an exemplar of sneering capitalism determined to provoke consumption of the useless
Not bad.... not bad.... but far more than just the younger nascar "bros" have had enough of the arrogant fake "liberal" shit. Far more. That is what is so disheartening for not just the democrats but the now old corporate establishment wing of the republican party.
So the EU is trying to coerce China (??) into cutting supposed aide to Russia, whilst explicitly lining up China to be next on the hit list should Russia be defeated? It is diplomacy Jim, but not as we know it.
One can see how the US Ruling Class learned how to demonise those they claimed were preventing them from earning as much money as they wanted with no encumbrances
They installed their own submissive Governing Class
Demonisation of the brits is much the same as demonisation of Putin, both stood in the way of easy money
Even their history content is pretty much junk. The science stuff seems OK, though usually poorly written. Wait until they make the jump to AI. We all know that it is coming. The site will lose even the tiny amount of utility that it now has.
It's begging for donations, just like the vile Guardian paper does daily, the latter having recently made a fool of themselves leaving X. Claiming the reason was because of increased hate speech on the platform, i.e. opinions they did not like, but in truth they were being regularly subjected to "fact checking" debunking the accuracy of their biased tweets & articles which ridiculed them.
Wikipedia is nothing more than another form of paid advertising these days. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a CV or a startup to promote are out in force every day offering anyone with editor access to Wikipedia money to write positive entries about their businesses or to write their biographies.
And doing personal attacks on people labelling them Nazis & far right racists. The people they attack are unable to access the character assignations. I can only imagine what they have printed about Orban, just one example.
"Using the 5 Big megaphones of the U.S.—the media, academia, science, the entertainment industry, medicine/pharmaceuticals..."
The biggest megaphone is Google. All these people on substack and elsewhere writing about censorship and the censorship complex are missing the forest for all the little trees going to prison in England for memes. Shutting down a few grant-seeking institutions at universities who have friends in some government agencies is not going to amount to much in a war for control of information. The source of the censorship around the world is Google.
Google bases its search engine ratings heavily on something called "domain authority," which is a very murky concept. The basis idea of "domain authority" was hatched by people within Google to ensure that when you searched for something like the Russia-Ukraine war, you would only get information (on the first 10 pages of your search) from "reliable" sources, e.g. the New York Times, Reuters, whatever.
The whole hierarchy of domain authority is both the beating heart of global information control and Google's business model. To improve your search rankings, you need to have links to high "domain authority" sites (like .gov sites or the New York Times or whatever local media in your country Google, I mean the CIA, has deemed to have high authority). If you want to sell medical products, you better have links to the AMA, for example, or Phizer. Good luck trying to get to the top of Googles search rankings on the Russia-Ukraine war if you do not cite the New York Times or BBC or The Guardian or Der Spiegel. Good luck trying to use the Google search engine to sell medical services or products if you do not link to the AMA.
So Google's entire business model is based upon maintaining the status quo and investing legacy institutions with authority. Who would pay for a Google ad or spend lots of money on SEO if everyone started reading substack articles or listening to Joe Rogan and did not care what the AMA says or what Der Spiegel reported last week.
If Trump really wants to shake up the status quo, he should use anti-trust to break up Google. He will not do it though, because Google is not only the beating heart of the status quo, it is also the apple of the CIA's eye and their most important tool.
It's truly unfortunate that platforms like YouTube, owned by Google, continue to suppress and delete comments that express anti-Ukraine proxy war views and challenge the mainstream media's lies. It's incredibly frustrating for those who want to engage in a constructive dialogue and expose the propaganda present in certain comments. This censorship only serves to reinforce the monopolistic control of the narrative by the powerful few.
Android and Youtube should be broken away from Google. But it is all connected. Google has reworked their search engine algorithms numerous times and continues to do so, but about 8-10 years ago Google decided that they needed to prevent the spread of "misinformation" from "unreliable" websites. This came on the heels of reworking the algorithms to reduce the importance of hits and traffic (which can be simulated with bots that repeatedly open a webpage). So they started assigning web-pages a "domain authority" (not their term but one later invented by a company called Moz, which uses its own algorithms to predict where a website will appear on search results).
A previous step in reworking the algorithm was to use links in place of traffic (because links are hard to replicate). The more links to your site, the better the ranking. Then they decided to evaluate your site on how often you linked to sites that they deemed to be high authority (i.e. New York Times or AMA) and how often these sites linked to you.
Once you assign high domain authority (and it was, at least in the beginning, basically assigned) to sites like the New York Times or the American Medical Association, for example, and then you base everyone else's rankings on how they relate to the sites you have a priori deemed to be "authoritative," you have now built your entire search engine. and the model that you use to generate revenue. around defending a status quo that you established a priori as being authoritative. If you allow people to post comments on Google that point out that the New York Times or the AMA is wrong, and not just wrong, but egregiously so, you undermine your own business model. Suddenly no one trusts your search engine any more and everyone stops using it, because everything that appears on it comes from sources that the whole world knows to be propaganda.
All such data is dependent on local country stats, even tho( the IMF and World Bank do do checks, these can not be comprehensive
Other indications like electricity usage are useful
China, being good capitalists, do not consider services are part of the economy in the sense they provide stats angled towards material production, and ignore such parasitic developements as much as they can
Edwin A. Deagle III, not his father Dr. Edwin A. Deagle Jr., the military academy graduate, Rockefeller Foundation officer, once proposed as assistant secretary of USAF, & etc..
Note the difference between "Deagle" and "DeagEl" in the URL?
The lying liars at the NYT are scribbling BS. The "newspaper" really does have some utility
though. A useful depository for used coffee grounds and as toilet paper. (not recommended for septic systems!). Used as TP however, one is susceptible to "inky bottom syndrome". People read this pompous rag to fool themselves and rationalize wars and genocide. Bigly sad.
Well the West is still on board, as far as it can persuade itself that it is
The West has been a lot of talk, and very little action, there's perhaps now even less action, but still a lot of talk
There are a lot neo cons in EU willing to take over -the Kiel group
Listen to the Estonians, a mouth piece for the Brits, a mouth piece in turn for the Ynaks
''Some analysts believe any European effort to shore up Ukraine could be organised by a coalition of the willing, starting with Poland and the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force, a defence group that includes the Nordic and Baltic states and the Netherlands. These countries, who are meeting in Tallinn next month, are Ukraine’s staunchest supporters and account for two-thirds of European bilateral military aid to Kyiv.
It would be essential for France and Germany also to come on board, Tsahkna said. Germany is Ukraine’s second-largest donor of military aid after the US.
Britain had the “opportunity and all the responsibility to take the leadership” of Europe’s efforts to bolster Ukraine’s security, while Poland was also playing a very active part in the discussions, he added. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk last week said he would engage in talks with the US, Nato and European allies on how to guarantee Ukraine’s security.
Tsahkna said he did not believe Trump would abandon Nato because it was not in America’s political or economic interests to leave Europe at the mercy of an imperialist Russia. But the Europeans would have to show they were willing to invest more in their own defence.
Estonia spends the equivalent of 3.4 per cent of its GDP on defence and wants Nato to agree a minimum spending level of 2.5 per cent, up from 2 per cent, at the alliance’s summit in The Hague in June next year.
Europe lacked weapons stockpiles and needed to do more to expand defence industrial capacity, the minister said.
“But what we do have is money. We have lots of money. I do not believe those governments who say they cannot ask for more from their people because we have done in Estonia,” Tsahkna said, referring to taxes rises enacted by Tallinn specifically to fund higher defence spending.
With Ukraine now seen as Nato’s first line of defence, it was Europe’s security architecture that could be reshaped in the coming months and not just Ukraine’s fate, he said.
Let's quit serious talk of warmongering non-entities. The 'coalition of the willing' going it on their own outside the NATO ie US umbrella was run several times over the last year or so, and got the finger and a lot of mouth foaming fury from the warhead nutters. Noise is what the EU is good at. It is all it has left now.
Gerrard I think you're 100% right that any European initiative needs Germany and France on board, and that's where it falls down.
Both Macron and Scholz are too weak to take their countries down such an unpopular road. There is strong political opposition to such madness in both countries.
Starmer has no effective opposition, but there is so little we can contribute. And the potential backlash from an ill advised intervention would be massive.
And even Tusk isn't stupid enough to do more than secure the former Polish territories that Russia doesn't want.
Coup Alert! TREASON! Democrat Deep State Planning to Install Harris in Presidency Before Trump’s Inauguration,
Then Trump Will Be Conveniently Assassinated, Next, WW3 with Russia, False Flag Terror Attacks Will Provide Cover For Martial Law to Be Declared the Satanic deep state is publicly plotting a coup attempt on the incoming Trump administration.
Apparently AI controlled Bots now send Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaire Propaganda against all the Real People on every social media. Authors employ boys to increase the size - fake - of their audience. Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaires use bots to join authors and pay them. Apparently X is 80% bots! Substack, judging from the bile here is not far behind!
Not as crazy as one might think. Leftie think tanks have drawn up various scenarios to this end. They hate Trump so much, they'd do it in a heartbeat. Maybe they'll skip that and just start a war to introduce emergency powers. Terence McKenna was right when he said, "I think it's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder and finally it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. People are gonna say what the hell is going on. It's just too nuts… We can put up with about anything. It's a good thing because we're going to be tested to the limits."
The Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaires like the Rothschilds think that Trump really wants to clean the swamp by putting them all in jail. Nuremberg 2 after the Deathvaxx and WW3 is on the boards. They already tried to assassinate him twice with wind-up toy mind controlled. This time they will employ professionals to kill Trump. If Trump is assassinated then WW3 goes ahead against Russia, China and Iran. This to me is the most important post!
"The Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaires like the Rothschilds think that Trump really wants to clean the swamp by putting them all in jail."..............The MEGA crowed may believe that, but the deep state players do not. Trumps lineup of neocons tells me, and them, his efforts to drain the swamp will be the same as in 2016......nothing. You don't appoint swamp creatures to drain the swamp. You wonder about Tulsi, RFKjr and Gaetz? I believe they were only bait for the voters since the chance that they are approved by the food soldiers of the swamp is small.....and Trump knows that. After he has to replace them with another appointment, don't be surprised to see those replacements mirror the rest of his appointments of neocons. At the same time, he can blame those who prevented the appointments, saying "I tried." The MEGA crowed will consider that a persuasive argument.
I can just see the CIA writers sitting around a huge mahogany table smoking cigars, trying to one-up each other with the craziest stuff they could come up with…
Drag-queen story hours? Tranny promotion 24/7? Post-birth abortions/infanticides? Forced vaccinations? Holy wars in Israel and Ukraine? Institutionalized censorship and repealing the First Amendment? Repealing the Second Amendment? Repealing the Fourth Amendment? Packing the Supreme Court? Open borders? Men in women's sports? Reverse sexism and racism at top volume, with white men being attacked all the livelong day just for being born? Civil War reparations 155 years after the fact? January 6 is worse than 911 and Pearl Harbor? And then Sustainability because of fake Global Warming, United Nations Vaccine Mandates, United Nations Agenda 2030, Agenda 2040, Agenda 2075, Communism, CBDC’s, Social Credit Score, De-Banking, Fema Camps, the Final Solution of killing all White Males in Hillary’s Fun Camps.
And they might as well have had rampant inflation and food shortages on their platform, since their policies had created that as well. Given all that, any sane person should find it amazing Harris got even one vote, if she did.
You have to follow through this time, demanding that Trump and the rest deliver on their promises.
It's not that fantastical. Trump claims he'll get rid of MIC, intelligence agencies, deepstate, globalists etc...that's a sureshot invitation for homicide. Not that I believe he plans to do anything for real. But the fact is that US has see much more capable, intelligent, shrewd and patriotic leaders than Trump. There's a reason why none has been able to survive or change anything.
This is because he thinks that Tucker Carlson and his friends will save him
So he will have to play it cool and hope that his leniency will be rewarded
Washington pretends that there is serious internal opposition to the war agenda
But there is a strong possibility that this is a kind of “Operation Trust” psyop used on the Russian government to give them false hope and to keep them from fighting back seriously
Prior to the elections, I also wrote about how there would now be a Serbia-style mass bombing campaign over Russia, like the kind that was used to bring the Serbs to heel after their failed Special Military Operation into Bosnia in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia. I compared Putin’s inaction or disastrous half-actions to the behavior of Milosovic, who was revealed to be a CIA asset the whole time and who thought that he would be rewarded for his disastrous undermining of the Serbian military and national interests by his handlers.
But Putin is Not Stupid. WEF Member Putin Has Proven his Treachery to the Russian People and his Compliance with the Klaus Schwab Great Reset and the UN Agenda 21
Nobody's killing Trump. The first assassination was obviously fake. They made it so fake they must categorize anyone drinking the coolaid as complete morons. And his 2cm long, to the cartilage wound, healed up perfectly in 7 days, and even got it's tan back. Lol
Yes, it looked pretty staged. And I believe a deal has been made between Trump and the powers to be. But if he really tries to hurt their deep interests, then he can easily be dealt with.
Oh yeah, they're all criminals playing a serious game. I should mention that for anyone interested in investigating the shooting, search YouTube for "Roll Up, Roll Up The Trump Circus is in Town." Watch that over and over. Move the curser back so you can just watch each person over and over, one at a time. Eventually you'll realize you've been had. And had by the worst actors in all of history. Hopefully Trump can make America's Acting Schools Great Again. There's more to investigate but that's where I'd start. BitChute has much more stuff.
We are not heading to WW3 simply because none of the big boys want it. This is just a last hoo ha to get Russia to do a deal, and to keep Ukraine fighting for the meantime just so that the forthcoming collapse does not happen on Biden's watch. That is all. Anything other than putting in troops en masse, EXCEPT going nuclear.
The missiles are controlled by NATO staff every step the way. Ukranians may pull the trigger and stand by the launchers, getting blown up, but they don't control the targeting. AFAIK.
What's really going on never makes it down to our level. You're getting wound up over a narrative.
WW III will be about wipping Israel and the Muslims in the Middle East off the map for good. We're close but not there yet. Most likely Trump will play a huge roll in that.
"Pike wrote that the first war would be a war to overthrow the Russian Czars, as related in a previous chapter and to destroy the Russian monarchy through a contrived conflict with the British and Germanic empires. The second war would be instigated through the Zionist struggle and would establish a Zionist-Jewish ‘homeland’ in Palestine (again, see the chapters on WWI and WWII).
Regarding the possible third war, Pike wrote:
“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the agents of the Illuminati, between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic world. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam [the Arab nations of the Middle East] and political Zionism [Israel] will mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile, the other nations, once more divided on this issue, will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economic exhaustion… We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.” Albert Pike, 1871."
The above is from the chapter on WW III from the book The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality by John Hamer. It's so accurate that I suspect it is fake. Israel didn't exist in 1871.
"ze;ensky" does not program these missiles USA does so unless yu think US would strike a nuclear plant you have nothing to worry about.
This is just to keep AFU fighting so collapse does not happen on Bidens watch. It's 100% PR like Kursk invasion, Backmut, and many other tactically inept stunts
I think it is a mistake to view old Joe as fully capable of controlling the deep state. These people behind the teleprompter may not be in synch with him most of the time and they were difficult to control already for Trump. We shall see where this all will go when Donny takes over. I think it will just continue with possible further escalation. As awful as it sounds I think the problem Russia has is it kills to few Ukrainians so that the rest of them can claim that they are winning. The Winter is now there but I do not think that matters. It is the numbers of soldiers Ukraine can send to fight or as a decoys.
“…The West has always behaved w/ the churlish assumption that Putin *has* no red lines.”
And yet somehow ignores the fact that the announcement by President Putin of the commencement of the SMO in 2022 and the subsequent deployment of Russian forces into Ukraine was a rather significant and direct response to a clearly stated red line.
Sweet, early publish time. I'll read some before bed and some with coffee. Always appreciate your work good sir. Thanks as always. The best money I spend is your subscription.
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To prove the Germans are really out of money and out of war plans
The Lithuania German Brigade looks less and less likely
Previous recent reports gave doubt as to the extent of the Lithuania determination and budget to build the necessary $1B++ infastructure to hous the now mythical German Brigade
Despite the small size and extent of the committment, 5,000 men, Germany has taken already so far 3 years to get to the stage of wondering if the Lithuanian government can build the infrastructure neccessary for deploymnet planned for 2027 (end of)
To say nothing of the uncertain formation of the Brigade in Germany, so far no troops signed up, apart from te 20 soldiers sent already, so far no arms uniforms nor socks have been located
Now another Lithuania report that German political chaos has stalled necessary legislation
It looks like both sides are wriggling out of the unique expression of German military build up so far observed, apart from the planning to re inforce some roads better to take tanks
This may be an expression of clear thinking by the Lithuania Government Class – why go out of our way to provoke our very large well armed neighbour with an attempt at an expensive pinprick – just as they have decided the Taiwan pinprick has brought much more grief , moss of money, loss of trade, loss of political stature, than anything else
As has the Lithuania President made friendly speeches directed to normalising relations with China
But- simultaneously – the opposition party wishes to increase Defence Spending to 3.5%
While- simultaneously- the President is reported to wish to avoid the committment to raising a division by 2030, wishes to push out to 2036 :2040
By then they’ll have to be demonising VVP’s grandchildren, but….
You may be right.....but it does seem strange that the one thing they promised to do they find it, for bureaucratic and political reasons, impossible to do
Despite the neos at the Kiel Institute
Despite the Lits or Lats or Esties
More on them later, but all these seem to be having second thoughts, sort of
The Esties have come up with a plan so outrageous that it's exactly out of Zelensky's book, in which the more extravagantly useless the idea is the easier it is to sell to those who have nothing to lose - as per the Germans perhaps, certainly to the Brit
"Relations between China and Lithuania should be based on the principle of mutual trust and international commitments. The president supports the strive to normalise diplomatic relations between Lithuania and China, but the interest must be mutual. The president hopes that China will change its decision to downgrade the level of diplomatic representation and that ambassadors will return to work in both countries," the Communications Group of the Office of the President stated in a written comment sent to ELTA on Tuesday. However, the presidency notes that maintaining diplomatic ties with China does not mean that Lithuania should reject trade and economic relations with Taiwan «
‘Lithuania PM candidate seeks to boost defence spending to 3.5% of GDP’
« According to diplomats, drone production is a joint project between Russia, China and Iran. Baerbock said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine was also an attack on freedom in Europe and affected the core interests of all European states.Lithuania's Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis demanded that the EU react "decisively". It must not show weakness because it fears the Chinese reaction, said Landsbergis, referring to Europe's dependence on raw materials from the People's Republic »
Berlin's plans to deploy a combat brigade to Lithuania in 2026 [sic] remain unaffected Conservatives insist. However, the necessary legislation for the brigade has stalled in the political chaos.
One of the two crucial bills is still on its way to the German parliament, the other is already in the Bundestag.
The parliament has not yet ratified the treaty signed between Vilnius and Berlin in September, which defines the rights of German soldiers, civilians and their families who will be stationed in the Baltic country.
Lithuania’s Seimas ratified the treaty in October, with German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius promising to follow suit in early 2025. However, his ministry is now unable to give a clear timeline.
In a written reply to LRT.lt, the German Defence Ministry said the legislation was submitted to the Cabinet on November 6 and will then go to the Bundesrat, the federal council, being passed on to the Bundestag, the parliament.
“The possible dissolution of the Bundestag has no impact on its ability to carry out its parliamentary mandate. The Bundesrat and the Bundestag will decide on the dates of the hearings independently. It is therefore not possible to predict specific dates,” the ministry said.
The second law is the so-called “add-ons package”, which creates financial incentives for soldiers who decide to serve in Lithuania.
This is expected to attract the almost 5,000 soldiers needed to join the brigade.
According to the Defence Ministry, a draft law has already been submitted to the German Bundestag, but the timeline is unpredictable.
On November 6, the ruling coalition collapsed when the Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked the Liberal Finance Minister Christian Lindner. With the loss of the third member (FDP), the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens (Die Grüne) no longer have a sufficient majority in the Bundestag.
Scholz said he hoped that key laws, including those that attract a broad consensus, would be supported by the opposition conservative (CDU/CSU) group.
However, the Conservatives which are leading the polls pressured Scholz by not promising to support legislation until the Chancellor holds a vote of no confidence.
Scholz then reached a compromise to hold a vote of confidence on December 16, which could pave the way for early elections on February 23 next year.
Scholz gave a speech in the Bundestag on Wednesday, defending the government’s decisions and appealing to the opposition for support.
However, the leader of the parliamentary opposition and CDU/CSU chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz said Scholz “cannot impose any conditions”.
The Conservatives did pledge support for some laws, such as the amendments to the Federal Constitutional Court Act, but demanded that all other issues be negotiated in each Bundestag plenary session.
LRT.lt contacted the Bundestag political groups for information regarding the laws important for the brigade’s deployment.
Speaking off the record, politicians said that there was talk of clear timelines in the current chaos, as the agenda can change any day.
Meanwhile, the CDU/CSU group has signalled its support for the brigade’s deployment, but has not promised to back Scholz blindly.
In his reply to LRT.lt, CDU/CSU MEP Florian Hahn, responsible for security policy issues, criticised the slow pace of the brigade’s deployment.
“A year has passed and the German government has not submitted any draft legislation on the Lithuanian brigade for approval. As soon as the draft law is submitted to the Bundestag, we will assess it responsibly and, if necessary, submit amendments,” he said.
“German-Lithuanian cooperation is of particular importance to the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag and we will not jeopardise it in any way,” he added.
Polls show some 33 percent of the electorate backing CDU/CSU if the elections were held next Sunday. However, this also means that they would not achieve a majority and would have to look for coalition partners.
The Social Democrats, which are polling third with 15 percent or the Greens (fourth with 12 percent), could help form a ruling coalition.
The Liberal FDP, the traditional partners of the Conservatives, are unlikely to reach the 5-percent barrier. In contrast, the populist alliance of Sahra Wagenknecht are expected to get 6 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) also has a good chance of gaining ground – they are projected to come second with 17 percent. However, the traditional parties said they would not cooperate with AfD. » »
‘Lithuania PM candidate seeks to boost defence spending to 3.5% of GDP’
« « Lithuania’s 2025 draft state budget will be revised to increase defence spending to 3.5 percent of GDP, Gintautas Paluckas, the Social Democratic candidate for prime minister, said on Monday.
He noted that the country would need to borrow additional funds to meet its defence commitments.
“The current draft budget for next year will be revised, aiming to increase the defence allocation to 3.5 percent of GDP,” Paluckas said during a discussion on TV3.
“In the short term, the need for defence funding will have to be met by increasing public debt. Tax changes will have an effect; they will gradually fill up the defence fund, year by year. However, the need [for national defence] is obviously greater as the timeframe shortens,” he said.
Currently, Lithuania allocates around 2.5 billion euros, or about 3.2 percent of GDP, to defence.
Next year’s draft budget earmarks a similar amount for national defence, but with projected economic growth, this will represent just over 3 percent of GDP.
Public debt is projected at 43.2 percent of GDP.
Paluckas also emphasised the need for a detailed defence financing plan, particularly to accelerate the establishment of the planned military division.
“Taking defence seriously, we’ll have to draw up a full financing plan to see in which year the funds are needed,” he said.
President Gitanas Nausėda said last week that Lithuania could consider sidestepping European fiscal rules to develop a full military division by 2030.
Defence officials said after a meeting of the president-chaired State Defence Council a few weeks ago that, with the current defence funding, Lithuania’s military division could achieve full operational capability in 2036–2040, instead of 2030 as previously planned.
Nausėda also said that advancing the division’s establishment to 2030 would require an additional 10 billion to 14 billion euros in defence funding over this period.
He said that spreading this financial requirement over six years would mean allocating 5 to 5.5 percent of GDP to defence.
The so-called EU Maastricht criteria require that the public finance deficit should not exceed 3 percent of GDP in a given year and that public debt remains below 60 percent of GDP. » »
>>even if Ukraine did score a hit, it was once again nothing more than a ‘low hanging fruit’
Did the HIMARS only destroy "low handing fruit" that had "no effect on the war" in the summer of 2022? Please...
They are going for a repeat of the same thing, but on a much large scale.
>>Think about it this way, according to Zelensky and official Ukrainian government statistics, Russia has launched over 6000-7000 total missiles at Ukraine during the war thus far, and one can see Ukraine is still kicking.
Ukraine is still kicking for two reasons:
1) It has a currently still untouchable rear. Had Putin had the testicular fortitude to isolate Ukraine from NATO with the surgical application of the appropriate tools, the war would have been over a long time ago. Now Russia no longer has an untouchable rear, so it is about to become an even more uneven playing field stacked against Russia.
2) There were and still are baffling restriction on targeting inside Ukraine too, that are completely sabotaging the war effort.
Putin could have fully disabled AFU logistics and decapitated Ukraine within 24 hours of deciding to do so. But he has not done it, because reasons.
This is why those 6000-7000 missiles have had so little effect.
But NATO is not going to impose such self-defeating restrictions on itself. So their strikes will have much more of an effect.
>>Well, the IMF has just done their latest report and has officially concluded that Russia has blown past both Germany and Japan as of 2024
Nobody cares -- missiles are not flying into Germany and Japan and they are not going to have their industrial base gradually destroyed by missile and drones strikes. Russia is.
Yes, the HIMARS didn't do much in summer of 2022 contrary to the popular propaganda narrative. I've written about it before (which you can find in past article) that Ukrainian officials at one point admitted that HIMARS had no real effect during the Kherson offensive, and this was merely an information package. All the stuff about blowing up depots and hitting a few train stations was just noise to make it seem like Russia's withdrawal from Kherson was due to Ukraine's offensive power, when in reality Ukraine was being beaten badly and Russia only withdrew due to general need to consolidate lines (due to low manpower at time) plus the threat of Kakhovka dam cutting off Kherson contingent.
I'm well aware of all the small cherry picked Russian tales about it from the same 2 or 3 doomer accounts like Murz and co. You on the other hand would do well to read outside of your echochamber what other more impartial experts wrote about those strikes. They were no where near as consequential as you think.
And you would be better off not making "estimations" on GDP since you are an illiterate person who finds it difficult to read the restaurant bill. And may be you could read the official document of the Russian Central Bank with their estimates for 2025.
I would advise you to get a map and search for the city of Izhevsk for example. This is where the Kalashnikov, Kupol an a few other industries are located. It is more than 1.300 kilometres away from the front. And it's just one of many, I am not even talking about stuff that is past the Urals. If you think that the Russian strategic depth has been compromised you are so wrong.
I agree with much of what you have said about getting West to backoffr& red lines and such but if decapitated fast Ukraine wouldnt be denazified now would it? Killing lots of nazi volunteers (i'd estimate over 1 million) aids in denazification.. Look at that polling Ukraine wants to quit now. Not so eager to kill the Rooskies anymore are they?
When this war is over Ukrainians will hate west, their own leadership and never FAFO again. That took time. Not to mention integrating ethnic Russian areas takes time.
This isn't Hezbollah where you have a ground movement that will always regenerate leadership because they are fighting for their own group survival.
This is a hostage rescue situation.
There are indeed a couple million committed Galician Nazis, but the whole Ukrainian population being used as the West's cannon fodder and a platform for attack on Russia is the doing of a small circle of people, most of them not actually Galician Nazis.
In this case decapitation would actually work in terms of disruptung the Ukrainian war machine -- these are people who are in it because of the money they get, but money is not of much use if you are dead.
Assuming those decapitation strikes would do the job and make the Ukraine capitulate, they wouldn’t solve the problem for Russia in the long term. The number of Bandera-minded men eager to fight will be in amount of several hundred thousand. CIA will back them with money and weapons. Attrition works well to solve problems in the long run.
The US did decapitate Iraq and Afghanistan. To what purpose in the long run?
Show work.
which is why the occupation of palestine needs to be reversed and the jew problem solved - finally - for real this time...
This never was about saving Ukraine or Ukrainians.
CS - Do you not think that this is too little too late - 'they' blew their chance at 'colour' revolution, no?
Oh good Lord. That shitty rag does nothing but write fiction. It's just pathetic. I'm pretty sure someone in the Kremlin read that and was shocked.
The idea that 'Pop' stars can represent 'authenticity' is absurd - the most over produced carefully curated and hyped of products which seek the lowest possible common denominator is an exemplar of sneering capitalism determined to provoke consumption of the useless
Not bad.... not bad.... but far more than just the younger nascar "bros" have had enough of the arrogant fake "liberal" shit. Far more. That is what is so disheartening for not just the democrats but the now old corporate establishment wing of the republican party.
Well yeah..... Hispanics and women turned on them, too, among other demographics to varying degrees.
Note the Lit FM's quotes cited by DW I think
So the EU is trying to coerce China (??) into cutting supposed aide to Russia, whilst explicitly lining up China to be next on the hit list should Russia be defeated? It is diplomacy Jim, but not as we know it.
One can see how the US Ruling Class learned how to demonise those they claimed were preventing them from earning as much money as they wanted with no encumbrances
They installed their own submissive Governing Class
Demonisation of the brits is much the same as demonisation of Putin, both stood in the way of easy money
Wikipedia is the last place anyone should look at for current affairs anyway.
Even their history content is pretty much junk. The science stuff seems OK, though usually poorly written. Wait until they make the jump to AI. We all know that it is coming. The site will lose even the tiny amount of utility that it now has.
It's begging for donations, just like the vile Guardian paper does daily, the latter having recently made a fool of themselves leaving X. Claiming the reason was because of increased hate speech on the platform, i.e. opinions they did not like, but in truth they were being regularly subjected to "fact checking" debunking the accuracy of their biased tweets & articles which ridiculed them.
Wikipedia is nothing more than another form of paid advertising these days. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a CV or a startup to promote are out in force every day offering anyone with editor access to Wikipedia money to write positive entries about their businesses or to write their biographies.
And doing personal attacks on people labelling them Nazis & far right racists. The people they attack are unable to access the character assignations. I can only imagine what they have printed about Orban, just one example.
"Using the 5 Big megaphones of the U.S.—the media, academia, science, the entertainment industry, medicine/pharmaceuticals..."
The biggest megaphone is Google. All these people on substack and elsewhere writing about censorship and the censorship complex are missing the forest for all the little trees going to prison in England for memes. Shutting down a few grant-seeking institutions at universities who have friends in some government agencies is not going to amount to much in a war for control of information. The source of the censorship around the world is Google.
Google bases its search engine ratings heavily on something called "domain authority," which is a very murky concept. The basis idea of "domain authority" was hatched by people within Google to ensure that when you searched for something like the Russia-Ukraine war, you would only get information (on the first 10 pages of your search) from "reliable" sources, e.g. the New York Times, Reuters, whatever.
The whole hierarchy of domain authority is both the beating heart of global information control and Google's business model. To improve your search rankings, you need to have links to high "domain authority" sites (like .gov sites or the New York Times or whatever local media in your country Google, I mean the CIA, has deemed to have high authority). If you want to sell medical products, you better have links to the AMA, for example, or Phizer. Good luck trying to get to the top of Googles search rankings on the Russia-Ukraine war if you do not cite the New York Times or BBC or The Guardian or Der Spiegel. Good luck trying to use the Google search engine to sell medical services or products if you do not link to the AMA.
So Google's entire business model is based upon maintaining the status quo and investing legacy institutions with authority. Who would pay for a Google ad or spend lots of money on SEO if everyone started reading substack articles or listening to Joe Rogan and did not care what the AMA says or what Der Spiegel reported last week.
If Trump really wants to shake up the status quo, he should use anti-trust to break up Google. He will not do it though, because Google is not only the beating heart of the status quo, it is also the apple of the CIA's eye and their most important tool.
I have never stopped using a card catalog.
@cheetosSpring
"The data is sacred but the index is divine"
The mechanism used to oppress real news is the beautifully Orwellian named ‘Newsguard’.
It's truly unfortunate that platforms like YouTube, owned by Google, continue to suppress and delete comments that express anti-Ukraine proxy war views and challenge the mainstream media's lies. It's incredibly frustrating for those who want to engage in a constructive dialogue and expose the propaganda present in certain comments. This censorship only serves to reinforce the monopolistic control of the narrative by the powerful few.
Android and Youtube should be broken away from Google. But it is all connected. Google has reworked their search engine algorithms numerous times and continues to do so, but about 8-10 years ago Google decided that they needed to prevent the spread of "misinformation" from "unreliable" websites. This came on the heels of reworking the algorithms to reduce the importance of hits and traffic (which can be simulated with bots that repeatedly open a webpage). So they started assigning web-pages a "domain authority" (not their term but one later invented by a company called Moz, which uses its own algorithms to predict where a website will appear on search results).
A previous step in reworking the algorithm was to use links in place of traffic (because links are hard to replicate). The more links to your site, the better the ranking. Then they decided to evaluate your site on how often you linked to sites that they deemed to be high authority (i.e. New York Times or AMA) and how often these sites linked to you.
Once you assign high domain authority (and it was, at least in the beginning, basically assigned) to sites like the New York Times or the American Medical Association, for example, and then you base everyone else's rankings on how they relate to the sites you have a priori deemed to be "authoritative," you have now built your entire search engine. and the model that you use to generate revenue. around defending a status quo that you established a priori as being authoritative. If you allow people to post comments on Google that point out that the New York Times or the AMA is wrong, and not just wrong, but egregiously so, you undermine your own business model. Suddenly no one trusts your search engine any more and everyone stops using it, because everything that appears on it comes from sources that the whole world knows to be propaganda.
Interesting but off-topic.
It has been US policy since the very first to invade other countries and to kill their people and steal their women and resources
Was not this the way the US was 'founded', up the beaches on Invasion Day......
Which war continues to today
Maybe China will come to solve this problems, as their negotiations with the First Nations in Canada may promise
Off topic but excellent comment on Wests hypocritical crise.
All such data is dependent on local country stats, even tho( the IMF and World Bank do do checks, these can not be comprehensive
Other indications like electricity usage are useful
China, being good capitalists, do not consider services are part of the economy in the sense they provide stats angled towards material production, and ignore such parasitic developements as much as they can
See Han Feizi at Asia Tmies
@cheetosSpring
Edwin A. Deagle III, not his father Dr. Edwin A. Deagle Jr., the military academy graduate, Rockefeller Foundation officer, once proposed as assistant secretary of USAF, & etc..
Note the difference between "Deagle" and "DeagEl" in the URL?
The NYT is almost as foolish as Zelensky
The lying liars at the NYT are scribbling BS. The "newspaper" really does have some utility
though. A useful depository for used coffee grounds and as toilet paper. (not recommended for septic systems!). Used as TP however, one is susceptible to "inky bottom syndrome". People read this pompous rag to fool themselves and rationalize wars and genocide. Bigly sad.
I hear that it's mostly used because of their crossword puzzle.
You can get it free on the Seattle Times site.
But has anything changed re US missile policy? As S reports most of this so called change does not appear to be 'official'
Boosting a drone over the Black sorry Red Sea is going to provoke WW3?
The Ansar Allah do this on a daily almost basis
I agree, Gerrard. Ukraine has to believe the west is still on board. The rest of us, don't though.
Well the West is still on board, as far as it can persuade itself that it is
The West has been a lot of talk, and very little action, there's perhaps now even less action, but still a lot of talk
There are a lot neo cons in EU willing to take over -the Kiel group
Listen to the Estonians, a mouth piece for the Brits, a mouth piece in turn for the Ynaks
''Some analysts believe any European effort to shore up Ukraine could be organised by a coalition of the willing, starting with Poland and the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force, a defence group that includes the Nordic and Baltic states and the Netherlands. These countries, who are meeting in Tallinn next month, are Ukraine’s staunchest supporters and account for two-thirds of European bilateral military aid to Kyiv.
It would be essential for France and Germany also to come on board, Tsahkna said. Germany is Ukraine’s second-largest donor of military aid after the US.
Britain had the “opportunity and all the responsibility to take the leadership” of Europe’s efforts to bolster Ukraine’s security, while Poland was also playing a very active part in the discussions, he added. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk last week said he would engage in talks with the US, Nato and European allies on how to guarantee Ukraine’s security.
Tsahkna said he did not believe Trump would abandon Nato because it was not in America’s political or economic interests to leave Europe at the mercy of an imperialist Russia. But the Europeans would have to show they were willing to invest more in their own defence.
Estonia spends the equivalent of 3.4 per cent of its GDP on defence and wants Nato to agree a minimum spending level of 2.5 per cent, up from 2 per cent, at the alliance’s summit in The Hague in June next year.
Europe lacked weapons stockpiles and needed to do more to expand defence industrial capacity, the minister said.
“But what we do have is money. We have lots of money. I do not believe those governments who say they cannot ask for more from their people because we have done in Estonia,” Tsahkna said, referring to taxes rises enacted by Tallinn specifically to fund higher defence spending.
With Ukraine now seen as Nato’s first line of defence, it was Europe’s security architecture that could be reshaped in the coming months and not just Ukraine’s fate, he said.
“We just cannot wait on whatever the US decides.”
Let's quit serious talk of warmongering non-entities. The 'coalition of the willing' going it on their own outside the NATO ie US umbrella was run several times over the last year or so, and got the finger and a lot of mouth foaming fury from the warhead nutters. Noise is what the EU is good at. It is all it has left now.
Noise is what the EU is all about
But this Estonia quote is not EU, it is JEF, the Brits, and is a direct line from UK to the US
The US likes to fight wars by proxy
It is still just noise.
They're all hat and no cattle.
If you are describing 'they' as the US, and you ought to be
Since when did that stop them from making chaos in Afghan Ukraine and Gaza?
Using the language such as '....to shore up Ukraine...' is criminally remiss.
What's meant is shore up Kiev Ukraine, the regime.
Using that language actually maintains the US lying narrative.
Anyone using it is wittingly or unwittingly a stooge for the lying murderers of Washington.
No they do not mean what you claim - they think they say they support no régime they support a sparkling shining democratic citizen nation
Of course the Esties use such language - and have to believe it, else what are they to make of their own poodle state?
And they are not simply stooges for the US, for they also carry the heart and soul of the EU
They are, au contraire, heroic standard bearers for peoples who have lost their way
Gerrard I think you're 100% right that any European initiative needs Germany and France on board, and that's where it falls down.
Both Macron and Scholz are too weak to take their countries down such an unpopular road. There is strong political opposition to such madness in both countries.
Starmer has no effective opposition, but there is so little we can contribute. And the potential backlash from an ill advised intervention would be massive.
And even Tusk isn't stupid enough to do more than secure the former Polish territories that Russia doesn't want.
Exactly, very well said
Coup Alert! TREASON! Democrat Deep State Planning to Install Harris in Presidency Before Trump’s Inauguration,
Then Trump Will Be Conveniently Assassinated, Next, WW3 with Russia, False Flag Terror Attacks Will Provide Cover For Martial Law to Be Declared the Satanic deep state is publicly plotting a coup attempt on the incoming Trump administration.
https://satchidanand.substack.com/p/trump-will-be-conveniently-assassinated
Fantasy...maybe it's something you ate?!
Not quite--- there have been some loony Dems claiming this is an idea
the mushrooms.... yummy.
Apparently AI controlled Bots now send Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaire Propaganda against all the Real People on every social media. Authors employ boys to increase the size - fake - of their audience. Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaires use bots to join authors and pay them. Apparently X is 80% bots! Substack, judging from the bile here is not far behind!
Time to leave the digital jungle and get back to the Garden.
Not as crazy as one might think. Leftie think tanks have drawn up various scenarios to this end. They hate Trump so much, they'd do it in a heartbeat. Maybe they'll skip that and just start a war to introduce emergency powers. Terence McKenna was right when he said, "I think it's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder and finally it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. People are gonna say what the hell is going on. It's just too nuts… We can put up with about anything. It's a good thing because we're going to be tested to the limits."
The Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaires like the Rothschilds think that Trump really wants to clean the swamp by putting them all in jail. Nuremberg 2 after the Deathvaxx and WW3 is on the boards. They already tried to assassinate him twice with wind-up toy mind controlled. This time they will employ professionals to kill Trump. If Trump is assassinated then WW3 goes ahead against Russia, China and Iran. This to me is the most important post!
I'm sure they'll try something. However, I hope you are wrong.
"The Satanic Phoenician Mega Trillionaires like the Rothschilds think that Trump really wants to clean the swamp by putting them all in jail."..............The MEGA crowed may believe that, but the deep state players do not. Trumps lineup of neocons tells me, and them, his efforts to drain the swamp will be the same as in 2016......nothing. You don't appoint swamp creatures to drain the swamp. You wonder about Tulsi, RFKjr and Gaetz? I believe they were only bait for the voters since the chance that they are approved by the food soldiers of the swamp is small.....and Trump knows that. After he has to replace them with another appointment, don't be surprised to see those replacements mirror the rest of his appointments of neocons. At the same time, he can blame those who prevented the appointments, saying "I tried." The MEGA crowed will consider that a persuasive argument.
If Trump Reneges on his Promises…
I can just see the CIA writers sitting around a huge mahogany table smoking cigars, trying to one-up each other with the craziest stuff they could come up with…
Drag-queen story hours? Tranny promotion 24/7? Post-birth abortions/infanticides? Forced vaccinations? Holy wars in Israel and Ukraine? Institutionalized censorship and repealing the First Amendment? Repealing the Second Amendment? Repealing the Fourth Amendment? Packing the Supreme Court? Open borders? Men in women's sports? Reverse sexism and racism at top volume, with white men being attacked all the livelong day just for being born? Civil War reparations 155 years after the fact? January 6 is worse than 911 and Pearl Harbor? And then Sustainability because of fake Global Warming, United Nations Vaccine Mandates, United Nations Agenda 2030, Agenda 2040, Agenda 2075, Communism, CBDC’s, Social Credit Score, De-Banking, Fema Camps, the Final Solution of killing all White Males in Hillary’s Fun Camps.
And they might as well have had rampant inflation and food shortages on their platform, since their policies had created that as well. Given all that, any sane person should find it amazing Harris got even one vote, if she did.
You have to follow through this time, demanding that Trump and the rest deliver on their promises.
https://satchidanand.substack.com/p/if-trump-renages-on-his-promises
It's not that fantastical. Trump claims he'll get rid of MIC, intelligence agencies, deepstate, globalists etc...that's a sureshot invitation for homicide. Not that I believe he plans to do anything for real. But the fact is that US has see much more capable, intelligent, shrewd and patriotic leaders than Trump. There's a reason why none has been able to survive or change anything.
Zelensky will escalate the war
Putin will be even more timid than usual
This is because he thinks that Tucker Carlson and his friends will save him
So he will have to play it cool and hope that his leniency will be rewarded
Washington pretends that there is serious internal opposition to the war agenda
But there is a strong possibility that this is a kind of “Operation Trust” psyop used on the Russian government to give them false hope and to keep them from fighting back seriously
Prior to the elections, I also wrote about how there would now be a Serbia-style mass bombing campaign over Russia, like the kind that was used to bring the Serbs to heel after their failed Special Military Operation into Bosnia in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia. I compared Putin’s inaction or disastrous half-actions to the behavior of Milosovic, who was revealed to be a CIA asset the whole time and who thought that he would be rewarded for his disastrous undermining of the Serbian military and national interests by his handlers.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151903113
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS THINKS THAT PUTIN IS STUPID!
But Putin is Not Stupid. WEF Member Putin Has Proven his Treachery to the Russian People and his Compliance with the Klaus Schwab Great Reset and the UN Agenda 21
https://satchidanand.substack.com/p/paul-craig-roberts-thinks-that-putin
Nobody's killing Trump. The first assassination was obviously fake. They made it so fake they must categorize anyone drinking the coolaid as complete morons. And his 2cm long, to the cartilage wound, healed up perfectly in 7 days, and even got it's tan back. Lol
Yes, it looked pretty staged. And I believe a deal has been made between Trump and the powers to be. But if he really tries to hurt their deep interests, then he can easily be dealt with.
Oh yeah, they're all criminals playing a serious game. I should mention that for anyone interested in investigating the shooting, search YouTube for "Roll Up, Roll Up The Trump Circus is in Town." Watch that over and over. Move the curser back so you can just watch each person over and over, one at a time. Eventually you'll realize you've been had. And had by the worst actors in all of history. Hopefully Trump can make America's Acting Schools Great Again. There's more to investigate but that's where I'd start. BitChute has much more stuff.
Historically, all who tried have been assassinated.
They say getting a pet and the act of stroking it calms the nerves and releases tension. Have you tried that?
We are not heading to WW3 simply because none of the big boys want it. This is just a last hoo ha to get Russia to do a deal, and to keep Ukraine fighting for the meantime just so that the forthcoming collapse does not happen on Biden's watch. That is all. Anything other than putting in troops en masse, EXCEPT going nuclear.
Panick over - imagine if The Russians bombed New York!
The missiles are controlled by NATO staff every step the way. Ukranians may pull the trigger and stand by the launchers, getting blown up, but they don't control the targeting. AFAIK.
What's really going on never makes it down to our level. You're getting wound up over a narrative.
WW III will be about wipping Israel and the Muslims in the Middle East off the map for good. We're close but not there yet. Most likely Trump will play a huge roll in that.
"Pike wrote that the first war would be a war to overthrow the Russian Czars, as related in a previous chapter and to destroy the Russian monarchy through a contrived conflict with the British and Germanic empires. The second war would be instigated through the Zionist struggle and would establish a Zionist-Jewish ‘homeland’ in Palestine (again, see the chapters on WWI and WWII).
Regarding the possible third war, Pike wrote:
“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the agents of the Illuminati, between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic world. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam [the Arab nations of the Middle East] and political Zionism [Israel] will mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile, the other nations, once more divided on this issue, will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economic exhaustion… We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.” Albert Pike, 1871."
The above is from the chapter on WW III from the book The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality by John Hamer. It's so accurate that I suspect it is fake. Israel didn't exist in 1871.
"ze;ensky" does not program these missiles USA does so unless yu think US would strike a nuclear plant you have nothing to worry about.
This is just to keep AFU fighting so collapse does not happen on Bidens watch. It's 100% PR like Kursk invasion, Backmut, and many other tactically inept stunts
I think it is a mistake to view old Joe as fully capable of controlling the deep state. These people behind the teleprompter may not be in synch with him most of the time and they were difficult to control already for Trump. We shall see where this all will go when Donny takes over. I think it will just continue with possible further escalation. As awful as it sounds I think the problem Russia has is it kills to few Ukrainians so that the rest of them can claim that they are winning. The Winter is now there but I do not think that matters. It is the numbers of soldiers Ukraine can send to fight or as a decoys.
Winter favors the aggressor, if Putin wants to get it over, now is the time!
“…The West has always behaved w/ the churlish assumption that Putin *has* no red lines.”
And yet somehow ignores the fact that the announcement by President Putin of the commencement of the SMO in 2022 and the subsequent deployment of Russian forces into Ukraine was a rather significant and direct response to a clearly stated red line.
Sweet, early publish time. I'll read some before bed and some with coffee. Always appreciate your work good sir. Thanks as always. The best money I spend is your subscription.
you also bought me a subscription. Thank you
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It really does warm my heart that you can enjoy this. I'm sure Mr. S is more than pleased to have you.
Take this in the most lighthearted way possible: get a room you two!
By the night? Or the hour?
S's Substack...Tinder for thinking people.
To prove the Germans are really out of money and out of war plans
The Lithuania German Brigade looks less and less likely
Previous recent reports gave doubt as to the extent of the Lithuania determination and budget to build the necessary $1B++ infastructure to hous the now mythical German Brigade
Despite the small size and extent of the committment, 5,000 men, Germany has taken already so far 3 years to get to the stage of wondering if the Lithuanian government can build the infrastructure neccessary for deploymnet planned for 2027 (end of)
To say nothing of the uncertain formation of the Brigade in Germany, so far no troops signed up, apart from te 20 soldiers sent already, so far no arms uniforms nor socks have been located
Now another Lithuania report that German political chaos has stalled necessary legislation
It looks like both sides are wriggling out of the unique expression of German military build up so far observed, apart from the planning to re inforce some roads better to take tanks
This may be an expression of clear thinking by the Lithuania Government Class – why go out of our way to provoke our very large well armed neighbour with an attempt at an expensive pinprick – just as they have decided the Taiwan pinprick has brought much more grief , moss of money, loss of trade, loss of political stature, than anything else
As has the Lithuania President made friendly speeches directed to normalising relations with China
But- simultaneously – the opposition party wishes to increase Defence Spending to 3.5%
While- simultaneously- the President is reported to wish to avoid the committment to raising a division by 2030, wishes to push out to 2036 :2040
By then they’ll have to be demonising VVP’s grandchildren, but….
Who said that playing the poodle was easy ?
You may be right.....but it does seem strange that the one thing they promised to do they find it, for bureaucratic and political reasons, impossible to do
Despite the neos at the Kiel Institute
Despite the Lits or Lats or Esties
More on them later, but all these seem to be having second thoughts, sort of
The Esties have come up with a plan so outrageous that it's exactly out of Zelensky's book, in which the more extravagantly useless the idea is the easier it is to sell to those who have nothing to lose - as per the Germans perhaps, certainly to the Brit
The Germans seem much influenced by a concern for Rheinmetall's stock price
And the Baltics are busy forllowing suite setting up war factories
But - are they not a little too late to the game?
Meanwhile Mark Rutte is busy signing F-35 deals all over Europe....
comment coming
Annexe
« Nausėda supports intentions to normalise diplomatic relations with China »
November 5 2024
https://www.delfi.lt/en/politics/nauseda-supports-intentions-to-normalise-diplomatic-relations-with-china-120062477
"Relations between China and Lithuania should be based on the principle of mutual trust and international commitments. The president supports the strive to normalise diplomatic relations between Lithuania and China, but the interest must be mutual. The president hopes that China will change its decision to downgrade the level of diplomatic representation and that ambassadors will return to work in both countries," the Communications Group of the Office of the President stated in a written comment sent to ELTA on Tuesday. However, the presidency notes that maintaining diplomatic ties with China does not mean that Lithuania should reject trade and economic relations with Taiwan «
‘Lithuania PM candidate seeks to boost defence spending to 3.5% of GDP’
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2416279/lithuania-pm-candidate-seeks-to-boost-defence-spending-to-3-5-of-gdp
In which, also, the President is reported to wish to avoid the committment to raising a division by 2030, wishes to push out to 2036 :2040
Meanwhile the fierce FM, Gabrielus Landsbergis, in Brussels FM meet, has tough words on China
18 November 2024
https://www-tagesschau-de.translate.goog/ausland/baerbock-drohnen-china-100.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
« According to diplomats, drone production is a joint project between Russia, China and Iran. Baerbock said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine was also an attack on freedom in Europe and affected the core interests of all European states.Lithuania's Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis demanded that the EU react "decisively". It must not show weakness because it fears the Chinese reaction, said Landsbergis, referring to Europe's dependence on raw materials from the People's Republic »
‘Berlin coalition collapse threatens Lithuania brigade plans’
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2414174/berlin-coalition-collapse-thr fected by the coalition collapse, the German Defence Ministry and the opposition eatens-lithuania-brigade-plans
Berlin's plans to deploy a combat brigade to Lithuania in 2026 [sic] remain unaffected Conservatives insist. However, the necessary legislation for the brigade has stalled in the political chaos.
One of the two crucial bills is still on its way to the German parliament, the other is already in the Bundestag.
The parliament has not yet ratified the treaty signed between Vilnius and Berlin in September, which defines the rights of German soldiers, civilians and their families who will be stationed in the Baltic country.
Lithuania’s Seimas ratified the treaty in October, with German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius promising to follow suit in early 2025. However, his ministry is now unable to give a clear timeline.
In a written reply to LRT.lt, the German Defence Ministry said the legislation was submitted to the Cabinet on November 6 and will then go to the Bundesrat, the federal council, being passed on to the Bundestag, the parliament.
“The possible dissolution of the Bundestag has no impact on its ability to carry out its parliamentary mandate. The Bundesrat and the Bundestag will decide on the dates of the hearings independently. It is therefore not possible to predict specific dates,” the ministry said.
The second law is the so-called “add-ons package”, which creates financial incentives for soldiers who decide to serve in Lithuania.
This is expected to attract the almost 5,000 soldiers needed to join the brigade.
According to the Defence Ministry, a draft law has already been submitted to the German Bundestag, but the timeline is unpredictable.
On November 6, the ruling coalition collapsed when the Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked the Liberal Finance Minister Christian Lindner. With the loss of the third member (FDP), the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens (Die Grüne) no longer have a sufficient majority in the Bundestag.
Scholz said he hoped that key laws, including those that attract a broad consensus, would be supported by the opposition conservative (CDU/CSU) group.
However, the Conservatives which are leading the polls pressured Scholz by not promising to support legislation until the Chancellor holds a vote of no confidence.
Scholz then reached a compromise to hold a vote of confidence on December 16, which could pave the way for early elections on February 23 next year.
Scholz gave a speech in the Bundestag on Wednesday, defending the government’s decisions and appealing to the opposition for support.
However, the leader of the parliamentary opposition and CDU/CSU chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz said Scholz “cannot impose any conditions”.
The Conservatives did pledge support for some laws, such as the amendments to the Federal Constitutional Court Act, but demanded that all other issues be negotiated in each Bundestag plenary session.
LRT.lt contacted the Bundestag political groups for information regarding the laws important for the brigade’s deployment.
Speaking off the record, politicians said that there was talk of clear timelines in the current chaos, as the agenda can change any day.
Meanwhile, the CDU/CSU group has signalled its support for the brigade’s deployment, but has not promised to back Scholz blindly.
In his reply to LRT.lt, CDU/CSU MEP Florian Hahn, responsible for security policy issues, criticised the slow pace of the brigade’s deployment.
“A year has passed and the German government has not submitted any draft legislation on the Lithuanian brigade for approval. As soon as the draft law is submitted to the Bundestag, we will assess it responsibly and, if necessary, submit amendments,” he said.
“German-Lithuanian cooperation is of particular importance to the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag and we will not jeopardise it in any way,” he added.
Polls show some 33 percent of the electorate backing CDU/CSU if the elections were held next Sunday. However, this also means that they would not achieve a majority and would have to look for coalition partners.
The Social Democrats, which are polling third with 15 percent or the Greens (fourth with 12 percent), could help form a ruling coalition.
The Liberal FDP, the traditional partners of the Conservatives, are unlikely to reach the 5-percent barrier. In contrast, the populist alliance of Sahra Wagenknecht are expected to get 6 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) also has a good chance of gaining ground – they are projected to come second with 17 percent. However, the traditional parties said they would not cooperate with AfD. » »
‘Lithuania PM candidate seeks to boost defence spending to 3.5% of GDP’
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2416279/lithuania-pm-candidate-seeks-to-boost-defence-spending-to-3-5-of-gdp
« « Lithuania’s 2025 draft state budget will be revised to increase defence spending to 3.5 percent of GDP, Gintautas Paluckas, the Social Democratic candidate for prime minister, said on Monday.
He noted that the country would need to borrow additional funds to meet its defence commitments.
“The current draft budget for next year will be revised, aiming to increase the defence allocation to 3.5 percent of GDP,” Paluckas said during a discussion on TV3.
“In the short term, the need for defence funding will have to be met by increasing public debt. Tax changes will have an effect; they will gradually fill up the defence fund, year by year. However, the need [for national defence] is obviously greater as the timeframe shortens,” he said.
Currently, Lithuania allocates around 2.5 billion euros, or about 3.2 percent of GDP, to defence.
Next year’s draft budget earmarks a similar amount for national defence, but with projected economic growth, this will represent just over 3 percent of GDP.
Public debt is projected at 43.2 percent of GDP.
Paluckas also emphasised the need for a detailed defence financing plan, particularly to accelerate the establishment of the planned military division.
“Taking defence seriously, we’ll have to draw up a full financing plan to see in which year the funds are needed,” he said.
President Gitanas Nausėda said last week that Lithuania could consider sidestepping European fiscal rules to develop a full military division by 2030.
Defence officials said after a meeting of the president-chaired State Defence Council a few weeks ago that, with the current defence funding, Lithuania’s military division could achieve full operational capability in 2036–2040, instead of 2030 as previously planned.
Nausėda also said that advancing the division’s establishment to 2030 would require an additional 10 billion to 14 billion euros in defence funding over this period.
He said that spreading this financial requirement over six years would mean allocating 5 to 5.5 percent of GDP to defence.
The so-called EU Maastricht criteria require that the public finance deficit should not exceed 3 percent of GDP in a given year and that public debt remains below 60 percent of GDP. » »
>>even if Ukraine did score a hit, it was once again nothing more than a ‘low hanging fruit’
Did the HIMARS only destroy "low handing fruit" that had "no effect on the war" in the summer of 2022? Please...
They are going for a repeat of the same thing, but on a much large scale.
>>Think about it this way, according to Zelensky and official Ukrainian government statistics, Russia has launched over 6000-7000 total missiles at Ukraine during the war thus far, and one can see Ukraine is still kicking.
Ukraine is still kicking for two reasons:
1) It has a currently still untouchable rear. Had Putin had the testicular fortitude to isolate Ukraine from NATO with the surgical application of the appropriate tools, the war would have been over a long time ago. Now Russia no longer has an untouchable rear, so it is about to become an even more uneven playing field stacked against Russia.
2) There were and still are baffling restriction on targeting inside Ukraine too, that are completely sabotaging the war effort.
Putin could have fully disabled AFU logistics and decapitated Ukraine within 24 hours of deciding to do so. But he has not done it, because reasons.
This is why those 6000-7000 missiles have had so little effect.
But NATO is not going to impose such self-defeating restrictions on itself. So their strikes will have much more of an effect.
>>Well, the IMF has just done their latest report and has officially concluded that Russia has blown past both Germany and Japan as of 2024
Nobody cares -- missiles are not flying into Germany and Japan and they are not going to have their industrial base gradually destroyed by missile and drones strikes. Russia is.
Please...NO. Then again, if he did he maybe would spare us here his drivel.
lol he’s a fucken yank.
Niggah , you really are a thick mutt.
Yes, the HIMARS didn't do much in summer of 2022 contrary to the popular propaganda narrative. I've written about it before (which you can find in past article) that Ukrainian officials at one point admitted that HIMARS had no real effect during the Kherson offensive, and this was merely an information package. All the stuff about blowing up depots and hitting a few train stations was just noise to make it seem like Russia's withdrawal from Kherson was due to Ukraine's offensive power, when in reality Ukraine was being beaten badly and Russia only withdrew due to general need to consolidate lines (due to low manpower at time) plus the threat of Kakhovka dam cutting off Kherson contingent.
I wasn't even talking about Kherson, I was talking about July and August 2022, though Kherson is an even more obvious example.
You would do well to check on what Russians themselves say about the impact. It is the exact opposite of what you are claiming.
These strikes on ammo depots near the border are a very obvious preparation for an even larger land invasion than what happened on August 6
I'm well aware of all the small cherry picked Russian tales about it from the same 2 or 3 doomer accounts like Murz and co. You on the other hand would do well to read outside of your echochamber what other more impartial experts wrote about those strikes. They were no where near as consequential as you think.
And you would be better off not making "estimations" on GDP since you are an illiterate person who finds it difficult to read the restaurant bill. And may be you could read the official document of the Russian Central Bank with their estimates for 2025.
Cumino. If you don't value Simplicius' opinion, why are you here mate?
I won't offer you advice, but if I did, it would involve sex and travel.
less sex with himself and more travel away from this site?
takes a special kind of idiot to argue in writing with an illiterate person, no?
Who's arguing?
Pretend Russia were striking the United States with missiles.
What would the American response be?
Ask you to comment more
Genetically Modified at it again. Doing what he does best, insulting the Russian leadership. How's your war and your Substack doing?
I would advise you to get a map and search for the city of Izhevsk for example. This is where the Kalashnikov, Kupol an a few other industries are located. It is more than 1.300 kilometres away from the front. And it's just one of many, I am not even talking about stuff that is past the Urals. If you think that the Russian strategic depth has been compromised you are so wrong.
I agree with much of what you have said about getting West to backoffr& red lines and such but if decapitated fast Ukraine wouldnt be denazified now would it? Killing lots of nazi volunteers (i'd estimate over 1 million) aids in denazification.. Look at that polling Ukraine wants to quit now. Not so eager to kill the Rooskies anymore are they?
When this war is over Ukrainians will hate west, their own leadership and never FAFO again. That took time. Not to mention integrating ethnic Russian areas takes time.
This isn't Hezbollah where you have a ground movement that will always regenerate leadership because they are fighting for their own group survival.
This is a hostage rescue situation.
There are indeed a couple million committed Galician Nazis, but the whole Ukrainian population being used as the West's cannon fodder and a platform for attack on Russia is the doing of a small circle of people, most of them not actually Galician Nazis.
In this case decapitation would actually work in terms of disruptung the Ukrainian war machine -- these are people who are in it because of the money they get, but money is not of much use if you are dead.
Nobody cares what Ukrainians want.
Assuming those decapitation strikes would do the job and make the Ukraine capitulate, they wouldn’t solve the problem for Russia in the long term. The number of Bandera-minded men eager to fight will be in amount of several hundred thousand. CIA will back them with money and weapons. Attrition works well to solve problems in the long run.
The US did decapitate Iraq and Afghanistan. To what purpose in the long run?
Russia no longer has untouchable rear becouse of 300km missiles? Have you ever seen a map of Russia ? ? ? Lol
Shoot down the bridge to Crimea! Now’s your chance!!!
maybe if they had 500 atacms