The CIA is working overtime to push the lie that they warned the Russians about the 22 March terrorist attack and the Russians ignored that warning. Simply not true. As I noted in my previous article, the USG warning issued on March 7 only specified 48 hours. I have no idea when that “clock” started but let’s assume it was Friday the 7th and ended on Sunday the 9th. Since the “predicted” action did not take place there are at least two possible explanations — 1) the intel was bogus or 2) the stepped up Russian security at the Crocus City Hall on March 8 thwarted the attack.
Unless the intel stipulated that if the attack did not occur in that 48 hour window it was moot, then it was incumbent on the U.S. State Department and the Embassy to re-issue a warning to AMCITs that the threat still existed. They did not do this. That’s the problem. If the US intel still thought this was a real threat then why did the USG go silent?
Which brings me to the fact that both Sy Hersh and The NY Times came out with articles in the last 24 hours attacking the Russians as inept and accusing them of ignoring the warnings. This sure smacks of a coordinated info op to me because the essence of the argument is based on false claims. Let me explain starting with the claims advanced by NY Times reporters Paul Sonne, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz in their piece, Why Russia’s Vast Security Services Fell Short on Deadly Attack:
When it informed Russia privately about the potential terror plot, the C.I.A. was adhering to 2015 guidance known as “duty to warn” directives, requiring the intelligence establishment to inform “U.S. and non-U.S. persons” of specific threats aimed at “intentional killing, serious bodily injury and kidnapping.”
These directives are relatively rare, but the United States is obliged to issue them, even to adversaries, and has done so with both the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Iranian government in the past year. The warnings aren’t usually made public unless U.S. authorities think the threat could impact American citizens, which was the case in Moscow. . . .
In its March 7 public warning, the U.S. embassy said the risk of a concert venue attack in Moscow was acute for the next 48 hours. U.S. officials say it’s possible Russian authorities pushed hard around the 48-hour warning period but later grew more relaxed and distrustful when an attack didn’t occur.
It is unclear whether U.S. intelligence mistook the timing of the attack or the extremists delayed their plan upon seeing heightened security.
In the subsequent days, internal Russian intelligence reporting — which the Dossier Center said reached the Russian National Security Council — warned specifically about the threat that Tajiks radicalized by ISIS-K posed to Russia. The reporting pointed to the involvement of Tajiks in disrupted plots in Europe and attacks in Iran and Istanbul in recent months. The reporting didn’t mention the Western warnings or a possible Moscow attack.
There is a factual problem here — the “Duty to Warn” doctrine did not commence in 2015. It started in the Fall of 1989. I was there at its creation. To repeat, in the aftermath of the bombing of Pan Am 103 there were rumors and reports that the U.S. Government warned its employees not to board the doomed flight. That was not true, but it gained some currency in the popular media. The decision was made to come up with a policy for warning the public. My boss, Ambassador Morris Busby, led the effort. The decision was made to provide a public warning if we had credible intelligence but had low confidence it could be prevented. In tandem with that the threat information would be shared with the foreign government where the threat existed. Ideally, if we had credible and specific information, then it would not be necessary to alert the public because the culprits could be interdicted and the plot foiled. Otherwise, a warning was issued and the host government informed of more details via intelligence channels.
That is how the system is supposed to work. But the NY Times and Sy Hersh, fed by intelligence sources, became unwitting pawns in an intelligence op designed to smear the Russians and blame Putin for not preventing the 22 March attack. If U.S. authorities really believed that the terrorist threat remained active and viable then why did they fail in their “Duty to Warn” American citizens in Russia about the danger and re-issue a new warning? All we know is that the U.S. Government apparently no longer believed the threat to be credible because no additional warning was made. Real simple.
Now, on to “Delusional Thinking.” A recent article in a Swiss publication — What if Russia wins the war in Ukraine? — is alarming because the analysis and policy prescriptions are based on falsehoods and wishful thinking. The author, Mr. Georg Häsler, genuinely believes that Russia will move to invade Europe once it finishes with Ukraine. I classify this as a bizarre political version of a porno fantasy — those nasty, beastly Russians are going to forcibly penetrate European territory and compel the conquered people to do unspeakable things. Russia must be stopped or else all is lost.
Mr. Häsler presents “five overlapping stages” of how Russia will destroy Europe that, upon reflection, reveal that Häsler has no sense of irony and is engaged in classical psychological projection:
Establishing an alternative world view — Putin established the narrative of a NATO that threatens Russia back in February 2007 in a speech to the Munich Security Conference: «I am convinced that today we have reached a point where we should seriously rethink the entire architecture of global security.» It was the start of a renaissance in Russian power politics.
Increased subversion in the target area of an attack — Latvia and Moldova could become Russia’s next targets.
Sabotage of critical infrastructure — Critical infrastructures in the West are already the target of acts of sabotage. Underwater cables and pipelines have been attacked several times in recent years. Targeted cyberattacks against power plants or financial industry data centers are also a possibility.
Covert military operations by armed groups — Nevertheless, Russia will delay a conventional invasion of a neighboring country with ground troops for as long as possible. A staged uprising in communities with a Russian majority is more likely, for example in the Latvian region of Latgale, which borders Russia.
Short war of aggression – if the West does not react — Russia could use this weakness in 2028 to invade Latvia following a call for help from the Russian ringleaders in the country. The Kremlin has learned from its mistakes in Ukraine and is leaving nothing to chance. The attack would be carried out with a clear superiority of forces.
Four of the five stages are exactly what the United States and its NATO allies have tried to do to Russia. The West has tried to paint Russia has a relentless, ruthless imperial power even though Russia, unlike the United State and the United Kingdom, has not been engaged in regime change in other countries. In fact, Russia helped Syria fend off a joint U.S./U.K. effort to overthrow the government of Bashir Assad in Syria.
In the aftermath of the 2014 Western backed coup in Ukraine, the United States and NATO poured tens of millions of dollars in aid and military training into Ukraine, which was used to attack civilians in the Donbass.
Sabotage of critical infrastructure? That got a belly laugh. Talk about clueless. The destruction of the Nordstream pipeline by the United States (according to Sy Hersh) and Ukrainian attacks on the Kerch Bridge with British and American missiles are some of the more prominent examples of the West’s efforts to sabotage Russia’s infrastructure.
And lastly we have “covert military operations.” The West is funneling foreign fighters into Ukraine with the goal of defeating Russia.
The troubling aspect of Häsler’s article is that he appears to fervently believes what he is writing is an accurate picture of the future. Sadly, he’s not alone in the West. Until the United States and NATO come to grips with their responsibility for triggering the war in Ukraine, they will continue to encourage provocative actions that could lead to a global conflagration.
This is again out of the classic Western playbook. Shout loudly, “Thief, thief!”. People look everywhere for the thief except at the person shouting the warning. But then they did tell the truth didn’t they that there was indeed a thief! If nobody considered the possibility the one shouting was actually the thief, that is their problem! THEY told the truth!
Looks that way, but what is nest step? As the the excellent NATO Ukraine adventure crumbles and the talking points shift to the ‘Russians are Coming!’ what is the move they are planning for?
Will NATO strike at Russia directly? No evidence that they are ready or capable. Why this tack? A distraction? Distract from what?
Russians have only ever come westwards in order to chase western invaders homewards
Exactly, that is why I wonder about the reasons for the false alarms from official Nato sources.
To instil more fear into the population to increase defence spending, enable more and more restrictive ‘security’ measures and distract from growing domestic economic and social problems.
Exactly. They want a silent coup through State of Emergency now the Covid Lockdown failed. It is like Tusk in Poland tasked by EU to bring everything into Gleichschaltung
They aim to create a Permanent State as in Orwell’s „1984“ with One Party Rule
The WHO is currently enacting BINDING Pandemic Regulations (formerly non-binding or non existent) for all signatory countries, so more Plandemics and Lockdowns are inevitable. Why create the tool if they don’t intend to use it?
This was all predictable, because part of the Patriot Act dealt with the gov’t giving itself access to medical records and subsequent actions for “national security”. It appears the specific Section 215 has lapsed, but the WHO move would bring this zombie back to life world wide.
Article-by-Article compilation of proposed
amendments to the International Health
Regulations (2005) submitted in accordance with
decision WHA75(9) (2022)
https://apps.who.int/gb/wgihr/pdf_files/wgihr2/A_WGIHR2_7-en.pdf
Actually enact One Party rule? Why bother, the illusion of “democracy” is a useful fiction for the UniParty in most “democratic” countries. If voting changed anything, they wouldn’t let us do it.
This is a good sermon for you, A.P.
It’s a sermon by John MacArthur entitled “God’s View of Homosexuality.”
The content of this sermon will help people (and their wicked, Hellbound political advocates — politicians and “judges”) begin to understand the depths of depravity that homosexuals sink into.
(It is also my hope that people from Russia will listen to it as well so that they can continue to ban this wicked sin from their lands — and that their people aren’t corrupted by the wicked, evil, woke West — and to continue to drive it underground with the rats, where it belongs.)
Here’s the link, A.P. Listen to this sermon carefully. Might do you some good:
https://www.sermonaudio.com/saplayer/playpopup.asp?SID=1018091915517
Since you insist… not really my thing at all, but if public masochism is yours… it’s cheaper than going to your usual dom? …shrug
You really are psychopathically unable to control your urges… when you could just keep your bullshit to yourself.
Inferring I’m gay is a nice touch, even though you have been told I’m not. Is it because you resent that I’m not an intolerant, sanctimonious bigot like you?
And you wonder why organized religions are dying, as it is obvious you’re not sending out your little recruiting blurbs on the hope I would fall for such tripe.
How about you read some reality:
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/06/organized-religion-decline-agnostic-atheist-nonreligious
THIS is why you just can’t let this go, the church’s bills have to be paid and your preachers’ extravagant lifestyles need funding from the collection plate and online donations. Get a real job you parasites. Oh, that’s why you’re in the God Business? No worthwhile qualifications, and past employers fired you for harassing co-workers with your incessant proselytizing?
Go encroach on the JW’s turf, get some doors slammed in your face. Get arrested for interfering with women exercising their legal right to choose. Y’know, “God’s Work”.
Pack up your little soapbox and head elsewhere to find emotionally vulnerable victims to entrap in your God’s House of Bent and Twisted Mirrors. I think most of Larry’s readers are either too smart to bother with your Evangelical insanity, or have already committed to it, so no gains to be had here.
Happy now? Another public self-inflicted verbal flagellation session tomorrow?
👍🏼
“You really are psychopathically unable to control your urges… when you could just keep your bullshit to yourself…Pack up your little soapbox and head elsewhere to find emotionally vulnerable victims to entrap in your God’s House of Bent and Twisted Mirrors.”
Look on the bright side Any Person, if Chris said his same words as a Muslim, and you as a non-Muslim replied as you did above, he’d have the obligation under Islam to murder you.
Most of the Gazans that so many people on this site are so concerned about would want your throat slit if what you said to Chris about Christianity was said to any Muslim believer in fundamental Islam.
Muslim countries where offending Islam is punished by death:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/05/28/map-where-offending-a-religion-could-get-you-executed/
Now give us the countries where offending the rules-based international order menu du jour is punishable by 30 years in the slammer.
See Assange. Snowden. Manning.
I don’t read the rag WAPO but the headline reads, “Map where offending a religion could get you executed”.
(1) You have falsely labelled it as “Muslim countries where offending Islam is punished by death”.
(2) The national religions of India, Singapore, Nigeria and the countries highlighted in South America do NOT have Islam as the national religion.
(3) The map shows Blasphemy Laws in the highlighted countries as at 2012. Blasphemy laws apply to all religions as in Singapore.
(4) I know for a fact the punishment for blasphemy in Singapore and Malaysia is not capital punishment.
The above are just a few things wrong with the headline and your falsehood that come to mind offhand.
I suggest you to read widely, travel the world, think critically and do not accept what you come across at face value. And refrain from spouting codswallop.
(1) You have falsely labelled it as “Muslim countries where offending Islam is punished by death”.
(2) The national religions of India, Singapore, Nigeria and the countries highlighted in South America do NOT have Islam as the national religion.
My whole point is that under Islam you can be murdered for insulting Islam, that it is even DEMANDED of Muslims to murder insulters of Islam.
My post’s premiss still stands regardless of the misleading third-rate Washington Post map or of my labeling of it. But I admit it: I was sloppy with the labeling and choice of map with this comment.
Point taken.
When you use the words “DEMANDED of Muslims to murder insulters of Islam”, that is incorrect.
There are 20 countries in the world that has Islam as the religion of the state. Only 5 of them have capital punishment for blasphemy and in the case of Pakistan, it has not been carried out since the 1980s.
I have looked into the subject and Muslim scholars are divided on the subject. I am old enough to remember a time of moderate Islam especially in the Levant, Central Asia and SE Asia, all of which I have been.
I have met Muslims who drink and even eat pork! And Shiraz wine originated from Shiraz in Iran in the 9th century.
That was way before the export of Wahabism and the rise fundamentalism.
You should ask yourself what caused the rise of fundamentalism and export of Wahabism? Let me give you a few clues:
1) CIA, Iran 1953, Shah, Savak, repression, revolution.
2) CIA, Saudi money & madrassas, Mujahadeen and Afghanistan.
I have chosen to retire in SE Asia, in an Islamic country of many races, ethnic groups and religions. Alcohol and pork are freely available. There are churches and mosques in the province where I am. I have never come across a Muslim that shares your view of what Islam is. I am sure there are some. The point is it is very blinkered to make sweeping general statements as the one you made. My advice to you from my above post still holds.
Well apparently-Christian “O Canada is a Distress call” did threaten to send some Chechen (Muslim?) thugs he claims to know to rough me up… does that count?
Not smart, committing criminal violations on the open internet. Anyone climbing on his bandwagon here should be aware of his violent impulses.
“Well apparently-Christian “O Canada is a Distress call” did threaten to send some Chechen (Muslim?) thugs he claims to know to rough me up…”
Did he?! I didn’t catch it.
There is a comic element to this threat because it’s so far-fetched, even delusional, and instead of making the commenter sound tough it makes him pathetic.
Still, I agree, it’s a stupid action to write threatening comments to a total stranger over the internet. It’s a clear sign of true weakness: genuine men only make threats or swear at other men to their faces and then let the chips fall where they may.
Troll Culture is just one more facet of our declining West.
+1
You’re known by the company you keep. You’ve aligned yourself with 2 of the known vote-abusers who caused Larry to take it away.
Also, to short cut any misapprehensions and attack-posts. Please note that I don’t endorse other posters’ positions, even when they appear to be agreeing with me. They are their own positions and should not be construed as related to me in any way.
Did you forget your meds ? I suggest you go see a shrink asap
Religious fanatism is the worst massmurdering tool on earth as you should know
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia!!!
SPOT ON!!!!
More emergency measures to freeze bank accounts of disobediant citizens, more censorship on internet… More carbon taxes, more allegiance to the WEF!!!
Victor, you got it in a nutshell.
To get more cash from national governments and feed the MIC
So they can do what? BUY things?
No, this is a new breed of psychopaths. They rob not primarily so they can have more but so you are left with nothing and become their slave. Power!
Exactly!
Having nothing will make us happy! Thanks to the WEF!
Our purpose in life will be to comply to the will of the Masters!!!
They will read again the Homo Deus book and after, they will show us what is our future.. Very different from theirs!
Not new, has been well documented since ancient Greece. Read Michael Hudson’s Collapse of Antiquity.
https://michael-hudson.com/2024/03/economics-as-a-form-of-art/
All that has changed is the technology to allow implementation of it world wide. Unsurprisingly, the beliefs of a society play into the ability of the power players to do as they will.
Or: Ephesians 6:5
5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
And the Old Testament/Torah is full of references endorsing slavery.
And yes, you have encapsulated the self-admitted ZIONIST Rothschild Great Reset. Also see “Useless Class” Harari, Schwab’s right-hand man.
Tell us all again why the Abrahamic Religions are an unvarnished good.
Anything and everything out of NATO is based on saving face and protecting the welfare checks. They were all conceived in deceit, hatched in a nest of lies, and like all predators, can only live when others are robbed or killed, which they do by stealth and attacking. They are chronic and covetous ( there’s that word again) liars, scammers, grifters, and serial killers. Do not heed anything they say, if they promise a sunny day take your umbrella.
“Exactly, that is why I wonder about the reasons for the false alarms from official Nato sources.”
Pretty simple. Because they are pathological liars stuck in being committed to their trail of lies, and trying desperately to keep up the fiction of The Evil Russian Aggressors bent on conquest of all of Europe (diverting from the reality of the whole neocon scheme of insanity that some just refer to as “Project Ukraine”, that has gone so horribly wrong, evil madness now running for a decade).
Beyond that, I defer and refer to other comments here about what schemes they might have about “what we must do for ‘national security‘!”.
“Exactly, that is why I wonder about the reasons for the false alarms from official Nato sources.”
There are spectra of networked hopes which they seek to represent as reasons.
At the lowest level of hope based upon the highest level of contempt, is that “their population (possessive case)” will hold that “The Russians are just like us – they are Imperialists – so you will be better off staying with the ones you know.”
Tsarist Russian was an active participant in the Napoleonic Wars- against the French. Napoleon defeated a Russo-Austrian Army at Austerlitz in 1805.
A major component of the Napoleonic wars the adherence to the Monarchal principle, which the French Revolution had overturned in France. The Tsar was very naturally all in favor of democracy, and joined in the campaign to restore it in France.
The ghost of George Carlin?
Will NATO strike at Russia directly?
On Hal Turner’s site, he posted a video of M1 Abrams tanks on a 1 mile train convoy supposedly heading into Ukraine from Slovakia. The video was taken by a Slovak. Interestingly, all the tanks were still in their desert sand-colored camo paint which suggests they’re coming from US strategic reserves, tanks used in Iraq and surely Afghanistan. Since the US can’t allow Russia to win because they know full well it’ll be the end of their reign of international blackmail and thievery, they’re playing their last and final hand. Eerily, a full solar eclipse is expected to be visible in the continental US on April 8th. The last one occured in 2017. It’s uncanny how much the US has declined in these last 7 years and this will be the final harbinger for the land once known as the US of A. A new beginning however for who I refer to as the righteous or virtuous ones.
Russia destroyed its 8th Abrams the other day. Just the latest failed wunderwaffen. And just a matter of time before f16s are falling from the sky
Turner is a nutcase.
Re: the eclipses, the paths of the 2 make an X across the country. With DC in the crosshairs. Could the symbolism be more blatant? Weather permitting, I plan to drive 2 hours or so into the totality. If stars start falling from the sky, I’ll keep an eye out for the coming…
Near zero chance a mile long train loaded with Abrams tanks entered Ukraine.
No way would Russia not be aware of this and destroy it.
Russia has demonstrated they can respond within minutes and have also shown their hypersonic missiles can reach anywhere in Ukraine within 7 minutes.
Probably the Russians are waiting until they can wipe out a trained (?) crew as well as the tank. Two for one deal.
Abrams tanks couldnt even scare Houthis, many years ago. Sending them towards Russians would be a waste of gasoline, and everyone knows it.
You surely realize that when it comes to the neocons/Empire cult, any sort of considered reasoning thought about anything has no relevance.
They do consider some things, like their equipment failing badly on the battlefield, because it’s not good for MIC business.
They were postponing delivery of Abrams as much as they could, and in the end sent them only a handfull of downgraded ones. They pushed Leopards in front, to take the hit.
As far as planes are concerned, they did not even consider sending F-35 (not to mention F-22) or even F-15. The number of F-16s to be sent is getting smaller and smaller, and delays longer and longer.
Apache helicopters were not even considered, because they would do catastrophically bad.
Also no JASSM, or other USA cruise missiles. Only EU ones.
I would say there is some sort of considered reasoning thought about something.
The part about the waste of gasoline, was a joke about gas guzzling nature of Abrams and fuel prices. 🙂
At this point of decay, their actions are no longer but reflexes, not totally conscious decisions, like a patient with senile dementia obsessively scratching, shaking hands of invisible people or masturbating, repeating learned behaviors long cancelled by reality:
“Need enemy; make one.” Must plunder: find vulnerable place.” “I am The One, kill all pretenders. All are pretenders.” “Charity begins at home. Mercy killing for useless eaters.”
To distract from The Great Reset. A fearful and brainwashed public is easier to manipulate, which is what is happening in real time.
Milgram, Zimbardo, show the “how” to get humans to do inhumane things to others beginning at the ground floor. In the negative, Bernays shows how to convince the public “There Is No Alternative” so they either willingly join in (“you will be happy”), resignedly acquiesce or ignore “you will own nothing” in hopes it isn’t real.
“We will know our disinformation project is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” William Casey, CIA Director under Reagan.
Russia, China and the BRICS are threatening the Great Reset by undermining the US$ Reserve System in ways that the Rothschilds cannot defend against, which the G-R depends on being controlled by the Rothschilds.
So Russia is the first, and most necessary, domino to be pushed over. But Nuland’s Project has not gone as planned, so the Rothschild Minions (like Macron and Nutty-yahoo) are just going full-crazy in hopes the threat of a world-wide Nuclear Sampson Strategy will bring the masses and weakly-led gov’ts to heel. The Rothschilds are not going to give up on their 250-year-old project, of which the Great Reset is the culmination, without a massive fight.
They are worried about the Dems losing the White House because then the Hillary Clinton-Lynn de Rothschild “best buds” pipeline is less effective. Ya, it’s all Obama… that guy was a psy-op and a distraction from day one. Trump thinks “the Clintons are good people”, but that’s a far cry from the cosy relationship revealed in the Dem emails exposed by Wikileaks. Everyone thinks Assange is being tormented for the helicopter snuff video… it may well be there is even more incriminating evidence in something Wikileaks holds that has not been noticed (or revealed?), not just a few chummy emails.
The facts-
-The Great Reset is a self-admitted WEF (Schwab is a blood Rothschild) project to take over the world and modify human thinking. see Harari.
-Schwab has bragged about “penetrating” 50% of the Trudeau (1992 Leaders grad, same class as Merkel) Canadian gov’t. Freeland has strong connections to Soros, is persona non-grata in Russia, Singh is also a WEF Leaders grad.
-The Clinton/Rothschild Wikileaks emails are fact.
-Russia and China have both exorcised Rothschild-Class bankers and oligarchs from CONTROL of their gov’t and domestic banking systems.
-Other BRICS members and prospective members are doing the same, making space between them and the US$ Reserve and Petro$ systems… see Saudi Arabia.
-The Rothschilds have a long, well documented history of meddling in gov’ts, see British Hansard, Balfour Declaration
If any have documentary evidence to refute any of the above, post it. Readers should ignore personal attacks and take same as proof of what I say, not diminishing it.
“To know who rules over you, discover who you can’t criticize”. Doesn’t matter who said it, some of the truest words ever spoken.
I remember in early 2023 or so Jacob Rothchild said: ” We must not lose in Ukraine. Many of our most important projects will not be possible if we lose.”
Actually it was Nathan R. that was supposed to have sent that letter in March 2022, but alas, not true.
But like “If my sons wanted no wars, there would be no wars”, probably well understood in private though.
“Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink” anonymous
A LOT of nods and winks going on at Davos and the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, etc.
The Rothschilds are 250 years into this, massive missteps like that aren’t likely to happen.
“If any have documentary evidence to refute any of the above, post it. Readers should ignore personal attacks and take same as proof of what I say, not diminishing it.
“To know who rules over you, discover who you can’t criticize”. Doesn’t matter who said it, some of the truest words ever spoken.”
I disagree with a large chunk of what you write “Any Person” but I’m happy to see that you are still commenting here. The attacks on you over the last few months were merciless and worthless, especially the attacks by the most trollish of this site’s commenters whose “comments” were mostly personal/foul-mouthed attacks.
But you didn’t back down.
Good for you.
This site would quickly become a BORE if everyone here sang the exact same tune. It is intelligent, respectful, debate that’ll make or break Larry’s comment section. Removing the wonky up-down vote on comments has helped, in that regard.
I also don’t agree with much you post, but it is your Free Speech right to factually state your case.
We are fortunate to be Larry’s guests, and should do our best to not transgress his VERY liberal limits.
Doesn’t mean I won’t enjoy taking the Mickey out of the ones who try to torment me… worked out well for them eh?
NATOFUKUS appears to be readying the capability it already has, to attack Russia with nuclear weapons. https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-u-s-nuclear-weapons-in-europe/ And NATOFUKUS is, under the guise of “preparing to resist the Slavic Horde,” upping the ante on war spending and troop and weapon increases, especially within the yapping-doggie Scan and Baltistans. And how about them Poles and Moldavians, and the effete wimps that are the ruling elite of la very belle France, speaking out the sub silentio part to test the reaction of the mope masses to the idee foux of marching NATOFUKUS troops and war weapons into Country 404 to dare the cautious Rooskies to do anything about it. It’s NATOFUKUS that has the founding and continuing fundamental goal and policy of dissecting the Russian land mass into tasty chunks of lootable resources.
Staggering toward Armageddon, they are. A few of them getting filthy rich out of the Great Game play, the rest of us living under the Rules-Based Order, which really only has two rules: 1. Because Markets, and 2. Go Die.
If they start off a nuclear exchange the filthy rich will die too. Survivors will be in most of Russia, and Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana (outside of a radius of the silos of course) – the West and East coasts will be ashes. The Russians will target the ICBM’s but the political areas will be the real target. “Texas and California – declare independence now!
The plan is to fight Russia till the last Ukrainian, Romanian, Pole, etc. Washington D.C. does not want to be a part of the war, because there ain’t no bunker deep enough for that.
Don’t leave out the Baltic geniuses
The move they are planning for is what they intend to do to their own populations.
Excellent choice of username!! Congrats!!!
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is an EXCELLENT distraction to move our attention away from the starving people in the Middle East…
“that is their problem! THEY told the truth!”
No they “think” everyone is as stupid as they are.
Check out this gem from CNN today:
Europe is back in a ‘pre-war era,’ says Polish PM
‘We haven’t seen a situation like this since 1945,’ warns Donald Tusk as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upends post-Cold War geopolitical order
It’s YOU who upended the post-war geopolitical order, you asswipes.
Will there ever be an end to this insanity?
This is what EU Polish PM Tusk should do.
And the Disneyworld Naziland expo tickets will pay for it.
Small enough to put a fence around it and keep the nazis in quarantine. The EU might even go for it but they need at least a few more months of reality check to get there.
You need a better map.
The first line in the article by the Swiss hysteric is this:
“Negotiate just because Ukraine has run out of ammunition? Certainly not”.
How about not negotiate but surrender because Ukraine has run out of Ukrainians?
Next up from Swiss publication NZZ:
“What if Your Aunt had a Penis?”
To be followed by:
What if Your Uncle had a Vagina?”
Tune in this weekend to read the 5 overlapping stages of how these things could seriously happen….
Best of all, the song in the Wizard of Oz, “If I only had. a brain”
I think when Ukraine runs out of Ukranians negotiations will be moot.
“I think when Ukraine runs out of Ukrainians negotiations will be moot.”
For those Ukrainian men who can’t get out of the country the choice is death, being crippled for life, or surrender. The Russians have made a poignant ad encouraging the latter option to Ukrainian soldiers.
Russian ad: “This is your last chance”:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/793998232412775
Negotiations will be proposed by Ukraine’s sellers much like in Monty Python sketch about the purchase of a dead parrot.
Excellent analogy
apparently the ability to put 2 and 2 together is a requirement neither to be a “journalist” at NZZ nor a colonel (of the reserve) in the Swiss army.
What can NATO bring into the bargain at this point, and even if they do, who can trust them. “Certainly not” is correct but not in the way Mr. Haesler thinks.
“What can NATO bring into the bargain at this point”
The three B’s: bluster, bluffing and BS
The trouble with Special-K is anyone can use them!
Sad about Sy. I expected better from him. Seems to be a shill for the CIA.
Maybe old age and dementia is setting in.
Hersh was a conduit for releasing info that deep state factions wanted released. Also, how much real invetigative from someone his age.
True
Perfect first line!
He shines when there are disagreements in the deep state with official policy, Sy gets the scoop. When not, he is a cold warrior at heart (see his assessments of Russian military performance) even though the Cold War ended decades ago and funnels deep-state talking points.
There is a reason Sy doesn’t allow comments on his Substack. His opinions/info are not open for discussion. Lately, his reporting was pure garbage.
“There is a reason Sy doesn’t allow comments on his Substack. His opinions/info are not open for discussion.”
If Seymour Hersh knew for certain his comment section wouldn’t be infested by trolls (exactly like the troll, brussell, we have here on this site) he’d most likely have created one.
It’s understandable that Seymour Hersh doesn’t want to deal with all the contemptible, vicious, foul-mouthed trolls who’d inevitably swoop in and ruin his site’s comment section. The man has better uses of what little amount of time he has left on this earth than to monitor his Substack and he, no doubt, has better uses for his money than to pay someone to do it for him.
Sy’s comment was re.: above was “too many crazies around.” No doubt, but there are also tons of “normals” who would like to ask him questions.
Those “too many crazies around” make it not worth Hersh’s time. Once again, the trolls ruined it for the regulars or, as you said, for the “normals.”
Bullseye. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Hersch’s “revelations” about the destruction of Nordstream probably now needs to be re-examined in that light. What was not said and where and why were we being deliberately misled?
See the CGTN link posted here….
no link…
https://sonar21.com/a-desperate-west-steps-up-its-covert-actions-as-delusional-thinking-persists/#comment-238581
All hope is not lost for Hersh.
He is old but there is still time for him to sit down with Jeffrey Sachs and get a few tips on how to do a half-Baerbock turn and rehabilitate himself.
Macron tried that and look what happened!
LOL. Brilliant
h/t to a poster here a few weeks ago. 🙂
LOL. He posted it in text form.
Aha . that was the jpg char stream!
Excellent!
He turned his head to take a second look at his own gorgeous life partner!!! Imagine what will happen when he will see Michelle Obama!!!!
Get ready to use Adobe Photoshop again!!
Hersh, a JEWISH man who has done far more good in this world than you’ll ever do, being judged and then advised on how to redeem himself by a persnickety know-it-all woman such as yourself is laughable.
Your attitude and behavior reminds me of the obnoxious persnickety Nellie character from Little House on the Prairie; you’re simply an old version of the same female archetype.
Nellie from Little House on the Prairie
I loved that series, back when America had roots.
I never watched the show being that it came out when I was a teenager, but I used to laugh when my grandfather, a Hungarian-American coal miner, used to jokingly call it “Little Horsey on the Prairie.”
It used to run for decades after as rerun fillers.
You are definitely a good hairdresser.
JS said that the US is more than a protector of Israel.. He could have said that Israel owns the US Deep State since decades.. But he did not!!!
I am not impressed by the credibility of JS.. He fully deserves to be invited regularly by The Duran.. These two guys who are daily breaking their own Guinness record of avoiding to use the word genocide.. Two Youtube and WEF lapdogs.. Almost forgot.. Mercouris even explained us that Bibi is a great diplomat!!!!
I stopped watching the two a while ago. I used to like the scenery one could glimpse behind Alex during bis meanderings but that was not enough and te way he dragged out his words got on my nerves: “Let’s ………. do ….. some…… news.” Slim pickings as reports and, as you say, befy “cautious” in calling a spade a spade. Mercouris was downright insufferable — a literal mouth breather, full of himself without evidence of the filling.
Jerry D is a cool customer indeed. Knows how to fall on his feet, which he could teach to Hersh.
Thanks for your reply!
I am fully convinced that you remember Mercouris talking about MISTER Henry Kissinger.. So insulting to hear such nice word for one of the worst warcriminal.. Both deserve to be boycotted..
AC would be better off acting as a guide for tourists!!
When someone in the West seems too good to be true, and he is still at large, not dead, not in prison, not even ostracized, but actually celebrated as “courageous” by the MSM, it is prudent to suspect his offerings and scrutinize them carefully
PERFECT!!
Masks are falling… He was doing a great job for the Globalists.. He was a useful propagandist..
Another fake progressist just like Bernie Sanders..
Indeed
Feb. 2022 no less a military/intelligence expert than Col. Patrick Lang advocated Ukraine guerilla war — and all this terrorism this implies — against Russia. And was all in on USA — i.e., us citizens — to support this, pay for this, fight, etc.: come hell or high water.
In fact, He was so into this terrorist-style guerilla war against Russia, that he wrote on his blog that he did not care if a nuclear bomb came down on his Virginia home! as consequence for this. As it would be worth it: He was gung-ho.
Would Lang, may he rest in peace, be OK with the outright, intentional lies, on behalf of our government, NYT, Hersh and other useful idiots choose to publish.. . on behalf of Ukraine? Since Lang opted for this sort of covert action, the answer was a resounding YES. It is exactly this mentality most of the world has had enough of; and our clinging to it only forestall many days and years and miserable decades of reckoning ahead in our troubled, confused, dangerous and la la land.
Why do we have three cowardly buffoons, Biden Trump Kennedy running? We have a very long, arduous road to hoe. . . .
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I would vote for Lang to NOT rest in peace! (But I am not God).
Lately I have been studying the after-life, and in several places I have seen where actual “Hell” is having to re-live every very bad thing one has ever done over and over until there is true understanding and remorse. The re-living is the dead person living through these events as the others saw him.
Wait for the full solar eclipse to occur in the US on April 8th, the first one after 7 years. The metaphysical meaning of this is enormous. The Universe acts in metaphors. An eclipse over the continental US, an”eclipse” of the US, the end of the US. If you ponder a bit on how much has changed in the US since the last one 7 years ago, it beckons to ask, “was that an omen of impending radical change in the country?” What has transpired since then: the Covid genocide plan and wars all over the world with the dying US empire and its international coterie of hyenas behind every act of perfidy on the planet. .
You might enjoy watching „the little shop of horrors“
What is it that people don’t get that it’s always been about NATO expansion, yet to the exclusion of Russia as an operating premise.
The Colonel just wasn’t himself after the vaccine shot (he had a bad reaction), and I think what you were seeing was TTG.
Back in 2014, he had a deep appreciation for Russian military performance (volunteers helping the break aways), and was always very cautious about the potential of starting WW3.
Damn!!! What did they put inside those serums??? Satanic seeds!!!
Agree
but we have a tough row to how. Nobody hoes roads.
Nothing funnier than correcting someone else with a typo of your own..
Cx: but we have a tough row to hoe. Nobody hoes roads.
Western tanks on Ukrainian roads during Rasputitsa do.
Not enough of them to work vast fields. We must send them more
Try that in the Rasputitsa!
Beat me to it again. Anyway, it seems Kuleba has published pics of how successful Ukraine’s mobilization has become, with a note that so many have volunteered that the Brits were reduced to supplying old kit to keep them all fit and fiddling.
“Hoes roads” sounds like something from a country song about trucker’s life.
those are truck stop hoes
👨🎤 🎶
My truck stops for no one.
Got all my lovin’ on the run.
Hoes roads, here I come.
🎸 🎶
you could make a country song out of it…
https://youtu.be/Ei7-r4cJfMg
The Willis Brothers – Give Me 40 Acres To Turn This Rig Around
That was playing on the ship that struck a bridge.
Larry says: “if the attack did not occur in that 48 hour window it was moot, then it was incumbent on the U.S. State Department and the Embassy to re-issue a warning to AMCITs that the threat still existed.”
True BUT it was also incumbent on Russia to have taken elementary precautions at the Picnic concert to have prevented this attack and not taken the 48 hr window ‘as strictly a warning to US & UK citizens’, at face value. Whether the US withheld additional information or not, it looks like Russia dropped the ball. Really, what would it have taken to prevent this attack and maybe even nab, wound, kill the perpetrators on entry? A few well positioned/hidden spetsnaz? It was a hard lesson.
I’ve read that Russia’s managed to follow the money trail to Ukraine. If so, I hope they’re wise enough to be forthcoming on their final findings for public view.
3 Pilots in ships in Baltimore would have increased the odds of collision
Americans are so lax
Brilliant👏
Call me obtuse then, because I have no idea what it meant or alluded to.
British faint praise.
It’s lucky it got that much.
I think you’re being unfair to the Russians. This was one concert out of probably hundreds on a Friday night in a city of over 13 million population. Since there was no specificity in the US warning (which was over two weeks old by then), are you going to position spetsnaz at every venue in Moscow basically forever? You’re right, it was a hard lesson and Russia will do everything possible to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. But short of creating a police state, there are no guarantees on that.
No I’m not. A few concealed spetsnaz at every entrance, ready to engage intruders would have done the trick. The cost? A pittance.
Maybe they should try that in USA schools.
an all stores, and all entrances to public parks
They already do, metal detectors, armed guards, I think even xray scans of backpacks.
Yup, “bullet-proof” backpacks for kids too.
The US is paranoid. Fear works. At getting the public to believe any old propaganda.
In Cahtolic schools, a priest does strip search of everyone suspicious.
Why didn’t the US use that same excuse on Nord Stream.Biden and Vicky the Hut both warned Russia that something would happen to NS and the Russians ignored them.
Ironically, the Western MSM propaganda is that Russia is already a police state.
Meanwhile an attack like this would meet far more resistance in the US.
Russia was not warned … not formally as is protocol (Larry has covered this numerous times)
The US warned it’s citizens/the public … as did the Brits
Oh, Christ.
Oh, gee…Russia was not formally warned. Ergo: they should not have done anything to avoid a threat that embassies had warned their nationals about and just ignored it altogether well…because it was not a formal notification. Golly gee, never thought of that.
Are you serious? That’s the best one I’ve heard yet.
You’re showing your ignorance. Russia acted on the warning they were given. That does not mean they ignored their own intel. This was a Western back op using a proxy.
Idiotic comment.
Moscow is a gigantic city. There were probably several concerts that night, many large night clubs jammed with people, entertainment districts with thousands of people out on a Friday night. You realy think there are “well placed hidden sptsnaz” available to cover all possible areas? What about other cities, 50 or 100 or 200 miles away? A Spetsnaz every 100 metres, they could cover all of Russia, if they had a few million ot them.
You think there are thousands of specail forces, or SWAT Teams, to cover every potential target, in any of the world’s major cities? For months, or years, after a “potential threat” was vaguely pronounced, after the specific time window mentioned had passed?
You watch too many spy movies, where the hero shows up at the last minute and saves the day.
exactly
Bullshit.
Netflix
They should give a gun to every citizen, and let them shoot terrorists by themselves.
Worry about this :
Archie Bunker had the exact same idea about airplane highjackers; he explains his idea at the 52 second mark in the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDb0Dn8OXE
Yeah, but he was the punching bag for the first seeds of wokedom.
When Carl Reiner first created (stole from England) this show Archie was intended to be a despised character. It turned out that Archie was loved and Carl, some would say “the money-grubbing Jew that he is,” ran with it and made millions.
and screwdrivers to all airline passengers in case of emergencies, and in fact transition to an all “do-it-yourself ” society, starting with governance…
No screwdrivers, because ‘mericans can not be trusted with sharp objects. Anyone boarding a Boeing should bring a monkey wrench to tighten his own nuts, and bolts.
“To get this movement started we need lots of tools and cranks…Oh we’re the John Birch Society…”
Chad Mitchell Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWCYSVZhPoU
To get this movement started, we need to watch pre-flight instructional video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
You are making a valid point and I am sure the Russians are asking themselves the same question. However, this does not invalidate the fact that the American warning – if they had foreknowledge – look like meaning to deceive. It reminds me how the IRA would always issue “warnings” before a bomb attack. These were always vague, so it was either unclear where the bomb was to go off, or – as I recall – on some occasions would indicate a neighbouring vicinity, so people would actually be moved into the area where the actual bomb went off. However, afterwards naïve American backers who thought they were helping “freedom fighters” would be told the authorities ignored the warnings and the civilian casualties were their fault. The same playbook is used here. (That said, I do wonder, knowing what I do now, whether destructive elements within the British establishment were behind the IRA. It’s certainly interesting that Sinn Fein now seems totally on board with mass the Afro-Asian immigration and mad wokery which is destroying Irish Ireland as rapidly as anywhere in Europe).
See this book review :
Stakeknife: The Inside Story of The British Spooks Who Ran the IRA
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/09/24/stakeknife-inside-story-of-british-spooks-who-ran-ira/
“Just as Rome was not built in a day, so also was this abnegation of Ireland and everything Irish not done in the seven or so days it took God to create the world.”
Freddie Scappaticci, Stakeknife was, according to the book’s blurb, “the British spy who played a leading role in the British intelligence war against the Provisional IRA.” Stakeknife, along with John Joe McGee, another British intelligence plant, ran the IRA’s Nutting Squad, the IRA’s MI6 equivalent, which brutally dispatched spies and those Stakeknife, McGee and their fellow MI6 agents further up the food chain lied were MI6 spies.
Stakeknife’s Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA’s Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War Paperback – 14 Sept. 2023
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0CJ5TNH74/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
The British ran the IRA, as they do in Ukraine. The British Ulster (Galloway says) that is Israel was created around the time of the founding of Sinn Fein. Looks like a Party Reset.
Uncanny how the Empire actually operates everywhere its cloven hoofs trot?
Goblin, Rods and Irons.
Yes. It does seem the “warning” was more misleading than meaningful.
Warning was meant to discourage people from voting.
How many terrorists got flight training learning to take off but not land planes before 2001?
What was the title of that report? You know, the one Bush&Co ignored?
Well, Bush was an idiot. Such things are expected from idiots.
How many shopping malls, concert halls, stadia, whatever places where many people gather are there in Russia? You don’t prevent any and all possible terrorist acts even by placing a Spetsnatz watcher for every two civilians,
You it by razing the nests wherever the assassins are created and groomed. WHEREVER,
Good Lord, I’ve never seen so many people come out of the woodwork with so many lame excuses over why Russian could NOT have done something very simple and did not. Being polarized in one direction or another does not require one’s brain to undergo a polar freeze.
They dropped the ball, period.
My comment made an observation of common sense. Here, read it again slowly:
“How many shopping malls, concert halls, stadia, whatever places where many people gather are there in Russia? You don’t prevent any and all possible terrorist acts even by placing a Spetsnatz watcher for every two civilians,
You [do] it by razing the nests wherever the assassins are created and groomed. WHEREVER”
To which you reply with a petit mal seizure, spitting and snarling. How large is your “woodwork” niche?
“My comment made an observation of common sense. Here, read it again slowly:…To which you reply with a petit mal seizure, spitting and snarling. How large is your “woodwork niche?”
Pogo’s response, though incorrect – it happens – was NOT spitting and snarling. And, given your own track record (not to be confused with your “trained performance long-distance swimming ” record – Don’t worry, I won’t ask your times), your overly nasty lie-tinged response to Pogo is a mean-spirited case of the pot calling the kettle black.
In conclusion: Sonar’s very own obnoxious and persnickety Nellie strikes again!
Well, I admit – the woodwork comment was uncalled for. I usually reserve that for neocon infestations into the halls of government.
But I stand my ground on the rest.
OK, I’ll call your ‘common sense’ and raise you one. If one is to believe that Russia had beefed up security at the Shaman concert and that it was passed over for that reason, then it’s not a great stretch of ‘common sense’ to assume that 2 + 2 = 4 and that having done their job on concert #1, a substantial risk remained for concert #2 in spite of the specious 48 hr timeline, in fact exactly because of it – and its having been thwarted.
If the meager warnings were even ignored for concert #1 and security was beefed up for other reasons, then the dropped ball makes an even heavier thump.
Crocus was a prime event hall, housing thousands. It was NOT like hundreds of shopping malls, theaters, etc, etc, in Moscow.
If you can’t provide security for everyone, you don’t fail to provide security for anyone. Sophistry at it’s best.
you are both right. The Russians should have provided more security, and an attack would have happened somewhere at some concert.
IF the alternate attacked concert had not been a fire death trap, though the number of dead would have been a few dozens or less – Russian emergency health is top notch…
Enforcement of fire building codes (see Grenfeld tower, or various US similar disasters) is the real lax problem. All one of the terrorist needed to do was manage to light a seat on fire with the little gasoline they brought in in water bottles and the death toll would have been the same. There is the real weakness.
Maybe, maybe not.
1.If they thwarted, as alleged, an attack on Crocus the day of the famous star’s performance, when a huge attendance was expected, it is understandable to assume they did not expect another attack on the same venue (failed thunder twice?) on an “ordinary day.”
2.Do we know anything about security at other venues the day of the Crocus attack? Were they all lacking?
There is no way to provide fail-safe security everywhere other than by declaring martial law but undeniably they can do better. And I am sure they will now.
Exactly why is it you are so sure there was not security at the concert. There most probably was. It is probable that they were also grossly outgunned by the attackers. We have seen LEO in our own country cower to confront a student with an AR, do you think security armed with pistols would be eager to confront a squad of attackers with machine guns? Perhaps some did, and were among the casualties. You make a lot of assumptions for someone with little or no real knowledge of what actually happened.
My point was, if Spetsnaz, Omon or whoever was armed and HIDDEN from view, as backup, then the shooters would have killed the few visible guards and then been taken out in short order before even entering the building. Would’ve maybe taken one or two at most.
You are a backseat driver with 20\20 hindsight. Your comments are idiotic.
That is so obtuse.Biden and Nuland warned about NS.Did the Russians drop that ball too?
Yes, the Russian did drop that ball too by not posting submarine watch posts –like some kind of Cousteau balloons resistant to high pressure –on the entire trajectory of the pipeline. They were lax!
A few well positioned/hidden underwater spetsnaz dolphins, and a beluga spy whale. They’ve dropped a beachball.
Perhaps the Russians should put you in charge of the country, you seem to be the foremost authority on everything….
Maybe they should.
I’ll give them another clue to better living. For large concert halls, a 1 second, hidden security gate closure w/sensors at the end of a short corridor, with a simple override to open button on the other side so that fleeing crowds aren’t trapped inside if such need occurs should be mandatory.
Yes, every country should live under tyranny of massive security because the US is a country of psycopatic murderers…..
That was the plan.
Maybe they don’t want their country to be like yours is.
I disagree. You make the paymasters pay (in blood and treasure). There will always be scum to hire as assassins. There will always be some fields or woods or burnt out city (nest) to train assassins.
I expect some US military airplane transporting high level intelligence guys somewhere around the world, will crash for unspecified reasons (a missile) to communicate the message). Such is what happened in Afghanistan after a US attack in Syria. I cant recall how high up the CIA dead official was, but it was very high and showed the Russia has penetrated US secure comms.
I had something more… ‘extensive’ in mind …
Findings to be written on Iskander and Kinzhal nose-cones.
“Whether the US withheld additional information or not, it looks like Russia dropped the ball. Really, what would it have taken to prevent this attack…It was a hard lesson.”
It’s a fact of life that, barring short-term hardcore anti-terrorist security such as the “Ring of Steel” Putin used to surround Sochi during the Olympics, terrorists sometimes succeed – even in supposedly locked-down police-state Russia.
One thing is for certain: Russia is not depending on the United States for ANYTHING – including information – in regards to their national security.
The Russians are not whining about not getting US information about these Tajik terrorists, they are investigating if the USA is partially or fully responsible for their very existence.
If this Moscow terrorist attack is traced back to the CIA I’ll be very interested in seeing what the Russians do in retaliation (a hypersonic Kinzhal or two to Langley, Virginia, would be fitting but the Russians don’t want to start WWIII, so it’ll be something subtler).
As a doctor, I can confirm that your hindisight vision is 20/20.
Ask Larry what he thinks. My hindsight is supposed to serve as foresight in his neck of the woods.
Here’s your reasoning: “Oh, it looks like we beefed up security for that Shaman concert, because it fell within that 48 hr window and nothing happened. Guess we can all pack up and go home now. We didn’t really believe that warning anyway, except for the 48 hr. timeline they included.”
Absurd.
You are also skillful at creating a strawman and defeating it.
Soooo,how long should a 48 alert last?72 hrs,1 week,2 weeks.1 month,2 months,1 year,2 years,the Russians did it!!!!!
Why should they have taken a 48 hr warning at face value at all? Yes, two years would do. Two hidden and buffered against an RPG Spetsnaz at every major concert or event, for two years. Too expensive for you? Tell that to the 140 dead and the direct path to WWIII it sowed.
The US has been publishing pure bullshit and lies ever since the war began. Exactly how do you expect the Russians to discern what of what they say is truth, when it is only 1% of what they say?
When what they said was going to happen did not, the Russians logically assumed it was simply another lie. Whether the Cut Outs went rouge, or whether they were still being handled is unknown, but it will be discovered. IMO at present, there are people in the US and Ukraine that are very nervous.
The West is playing with fire and that’s not a good news for any of us. Most of the leaders, academics or the media don’t seem to grasp the severity of this type of escalation and where it could lead. The scary thing is that, if there are any who may have a sense of the gravity of the situation, virtually no one in those circles is speaking up.
The following video (1:17) is quite illustrative of how it might turn out. While it makes me laugh every time, the realization that this could really be the outcome in the real life is rather sobering. Unfortunately, it may come to some kind of a clash. The belligerence and ignorance-based arrogance displayed by so many leaves little hope that we’re going to learn any other way but the hard way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2L_Kd1VP0M&rco=1
the madness of the west isn’t going away by itself. By the way it looks, their usually not very smart and criminal actions backfire one by one. When Mr. Putin says, there aren’t enemy countries only enemy elites, when the funding and supporting of terrorism is traced to the West and when there have been umteenth warnings, that the perpetrators will be punished regardless where and who they are, the intentions are very clear. given the propaganda media, it has to dawn on the population what’s really going on, and these actions drive the point home. Example, little support for Israel among the under 30 year olds.
The brits have built their empire with terrorism, lying and deceit. So have the US folks. It is in their “elites'” DNA. The “elites” of the other NATO countries have been attentive students. The handlers behind the “elites” have always played them. It seems to me that the Russians intend to go after all of these eventually. In the meantime, they give space for them to self-destruct and they almost certainly have a detailed game plan on how to defang the snake.
Excellent. Apt video.
The banjo music, however, subliminally saying “hillbilly” (“mountain willy” in PC language) limits its applicability. It could safely be the national anthem.
Glad you liked the video. Makes me laugh every time.
I thought the music is illustrative of the clown show
The music is “Deliverance” (the movie) and it suggests “|hillbilly retards|”, which is not who is at the helm of our clown show. But the video is excellent and it applies
Yes, that sequence in Deliverance alludes to the heavy inbreeding all too common in deep rural areas.
BUT… Certain power-groups such as Jews and European aristocracy famously suffer from the effects of it.
Why do you think Good Queen Liz insisted her progeny take “commoner” mates? Even she eventually knew her and Philip’s cousin-ship was too close given the prior inbreeding of their predecessors. It will obviously take more than a generation or two, and even more “common” pairings to undo the historical genetic damage of the “Windsors”.
Ditto for the Jews… they really need to get out more. Mormons too?
Maybe strict Evangelicals will eventually end up in the same situation if they keep isolating themselves from wider society, as their membership continues to shrink. My devout Evangelical niece and nephew are approaching the big 3-0 and have had few relationships and none on the horizon… tick-tock.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/easter-looms-church-attendance-us-declines
Go get ’em boys, take no prisoners! My wife and I sat down last night to watch a movie (we cancelled cable in 2015) and she suggested a Netflix series called “Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War” which a co-worker of hers told her that she had watched and had “learned a lot”. Looked good from the title so we started watching it. As soon as the damned thing started they started bashing Putin and his insane for Ukraine and I couldn’t get to the remote fast enough to deep six the BS they were broadcasting. If this is just the tip of the iceberg and American couch potatoes are buying into this, it is no wonder we are a nation in steep decline. I understand that your work and the efforts of all of the independent broadcasters out there are fighting this, but I thought that you needed to know, if you were not already aware of it! Safe travels sir, God Bless you.
America will soon become an intolerable intellectual wasteland, if not intolerable already to those like you. I can’t imagine having to exchange views with fellow co-workers or even just hear their banter in passing. I tried to engage early on, even post Maidan – but learned quickly that it was a complete waste of time and of my mental health, It’s a matter of physical health for me now. If push does really come to shove, do I really want to die along with these people, being the only one of them to understand how predictable and avoidable it all was? And some are fine people, just steered to the wrong gate by the rodeo clowns in charge. Call me a fatalist at this stage of ‘as the world churns’, you wouldn’t be wrong.
US High School model was copied in places like U.K. and Germany as they destroyed serious education systems that functioned
They have now replicated the socially competitive intellectual vacuity of Idiocracy that defines USA in public life
Since this happened, the army of idiots has become huge.
To think that Humbolt’s Gymnasium was taken as US High School model way back, then totally perverted and sold back to Germany as “de-nazification”.
The Oligarchy is not having anything like the Gymnasium – it produces rebellious youth!
One of the most disappointing & infuriating revelations about America. After all the lying, manipulation, deception, and collusion with a rogue government, people are STILL using fascist “MSM” as their news sources.
All US movies can be funded by DoD and promote the „US Way“ just as that idiot married to Emily Blunt gets funded for being a propagandist in those Jack Ryan cartoons
Same with that reworked „Reacher“ comedy on Amazon
Go to YouTube and find movies like „White Tiger“ there are also lots of Russian historical dramas with subtitles and excellent clnematography
Ever seen the recent Russian film “T34”? A bit unbelievable in places, but a great watch. I stopped watching US/UK films and TV decades ago.
Great round table.
Thank you Larry. Happy Easter to you and yours.
“I am convinced that today we have reached a point where we should seriously rethink the entire architecture of global security.»
Horror of horrors; Putin’s pan-European security architecture speech, inclusive of Russia. How could he even think such a blasphemous thought?
It was the start of a renaissance in Russian power politics.”
No, it was the start of common sense, you swiss cheese head.
I’m Swiss and you know things are bad when even we who haven’t fought a war in 500 years, are getting gung-ho and belligerent.
You must or else you risk being invaded by Russia and becoming again part of its empire! The Russians are crazy about your fine watches
You should have heard the Saker (Geneva SND) about that!
Switzerland is a NATO Partner and has troops in the Balkans, not just the Vatican.
Although, Jacques Baud seems to see things as they are with razor sharp clarity.
what’s the proverb about one swallow?
“I’m Swiss and you know things are bad when even we who haven’t fought a war in 500 years, are getting gung-ho and belligerent.”
The Swiss I knew when I lived and worked in Zürich in the early 1990’s were far smarter than that.
What happened? I can’t believe they were that dumbed down in 30 years.
Check post here on Pips Bunce.
indeed.
but since the neocons (con like con artist) have no valid rational argument, any form of communication and diplomacy had to be destroyed. The fact that the fellow is a colonel in the Swiss army (which has no generals in peace times, except for the pro-forma general who counts rain-drops in the Korean DMZ and watches the undelivered mail addressed to the Soviet Union), tells you
a) that the Swiss army apparently has no meaningful standards and is morally and intelluctually as run down as their neighbors’
b) that it doesn’t take much to reach the highest echelons of said army
which is truly sad, because neutrality combined with a strong defense army was a highly successful approach
when you tell a Swiss that the only meaningful military danger to Switzerland comes from Germany, France and to a very small extent Italy, you get a blank stare. when you remind them that the Russians saved their bacon several times over, they fall in a state of shock. oh well ….
+1
the Swiss resemble their famous Gruyere cheese:
excellent texture alternating with large “holes”
Jaques Baud is the cheese paste,
if you catch the other imbecile they only gave you holes without cheese.
Frank, Gruyere has no holes, it is the Emental cheese that has them…
The more Swiss cheese you have, the more holes you have. The more holes you have, the less cheese you have. So the more cheese you have, the less cheese you have.
You’ve been listening to too many of John Kirby’s revelations.
I love the humor of that perfect logic… like the race between the tortoise and the hare
With this:
“When it informed Russia privately about the potential terror plot, the C.I.A. was adhering to 2015 guidance known as “duty to warn” directives, requiring the intelligence establishment to inform “U.S. and non-U.S. persons” of specific threats aimed at “intentional killing, serious bodily injury and kidnapping.”
I couldn’t help but wonder about the American citizen Gonzalo Lira who was living in Kharkov, Ukraine doing YouTube podcasts with The Duran, Tom Luongo, Hinkle and many others (you, Larry?) on almost a daily basis. Shit-talking about Toria Nuland was his forte.
Perhaps The State Department should have warned Gonzalo of “specific threats” (the Ukraine kill list which Gonzalo was on), “aimed at intentional killing, serious bodily injury and kidnapping”.
They not only never warned this American citizen living in Ukraine, they aided and abetted his kidnapping (arrest), serious bodily injury and killing.
We all need to let this sink in.
What was Gonzalo’s crime? Telling the truth as he saw it, smoking too much and having a very hardy, contagious laugh.
Lira once said that had he simply towed a pro-Ukrainian line, he would have been showered with western accolades and riches. The man was knowingly suicidal but with an integrity unmatched in these modern times.
Devoting an entire episode to The Cookie Slob can’t have done him any favors.
I’m hoping that one day someone from the embassy is going to whistle blow that they were ordered not to help him, and that they have kept a record of the order.
The cookie slob is perpetually garnering more and more of a distasteful reputation that will personify American foreign policy for decades to come. It’ll be one hell of a hole to dig oneself out of.
Part of it is the undertow of the limited hangout trick of personification, making her (an undeniably reprehensible creature) into a voodoo doll:
“Here, hoi polloi, stick your pins into her! It’s all her doing! We even let her go, Don’t look further.”
The same operation is being performed by ‘anti-zionist zionists” on Netanyahu. As if both of them were born by spontaneous generation, with no deep roots, no networks, no tribal affiliation to sustain and advance them. As if their removal would restore normalcy to the swamp.
Removing Nutty-yahoo would require a re-jigging of the edifice, reducing those roots, networks and affiliations by one layer. Similar subsequent removals would reveal the power structure, to become vulnerable to exposition and eventual impotence. Once that begins, it accelerates… another BRICS out of the Wall.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/22/xi-tells-putin-of-changes-not-seen-for-100
Look how long it took Argentina to again succumb to full IMF/World Bank etc. control after a fast succession of many protest/strike/election cycles. NEARLY got on the BRICS bandwagon… Like Ukraine, the Rothschilds can’t afford to lose Argentina.
A process that has been underway for hundreds of years won’t be solved immediately. It will be solved in increments.
After checking, and noticing Lira’s TG – Lira was into Red Pilling, the Matrix Neo (Chosen One) thing :
https://t.me/realCRP/1701 Lira from earlier full of praise for Chile’s Pinochet.
“As a Chilean, I can say unequivocally that Gen. Augusto Pinochet is the best president our country ever had.”
Still online. To think one could use this very American spiel with hard-core nazis shows how naive people end up in major trouble.
As Scott Ritter wrote Lira played him like a pro. That is Red Pilling.
To think that Matrix with the Red, Blue Pill, was produced by trans sisters shows how completely lost Westerners are. Lira was caught at the border by none other than trans Sarah Ashton,
https://twitter.com/SarahAshtonLV?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
You are sticking your head in a hornet’s nest
1)) Disagree. I certainly think Russia’s next attack could be on the Baltic states.
2)) attacking Moldova is something different because then Russia has to go through the south of Ukraine.
Please explain why the bear would bother with the chihuahua’s when it’s the French poking the bear? They are almost done with the strongest Nato military in Europe (Ukraine) and you think they are listening to the yapping?
To put it plainly, who the f–k cares about the Baltics? The EU has depopulated them and destroyed whatever economic potential they ever had. Or are you in on the secret unobtanium mine below Latvia?
Use Chicken for France, as its their national emblem.
You’re right about the Baltic states, most of them are in Nazi UK running the local drugs and trafficking gangs. You need an MI6 permit to do this…
Russia under Putin won’t go into NATO territory unless the treaty protected rail link to Kaliningrad is closed. But, under a more adventurous violent leader, who knows what Russia will do. My take, they will state East and South (BRICS).
The reason why Macron is so angry with Russia, is that French Africa has either told the French to get out, or is about to, and who’s moving in, the Wagner Group. Now Le Chicken has lots of chick soldiers coming home, oh, let’s send them to UKraine.
The new free world sees much better deals with China and Russia.
For the same reasons why the Baltics were targeted in Stalin’s time, because rather than neutrality, they willingly host unfriendly forces.
But those were different times and the current times, although rhyming a bit, only serve as an irrational excuse the Baltic states, and NATO itself use, to argue of imminent invasion and nothing more. As MacGregor likes to say: “It’s all nonsense”.
Had the Baltic States, like Ukraine, followed the path of neutrality as I’d hoped for decades ago, they’d have been a whole lot safer and stabler than the path they chose. Throw Finland into the lot now, as well.
Baltic States face economic implosion
They have a demographic problem
I thought Russian Empire had bought them from Sweden a century or two ago ?
What are the Baltic states now : a money laundering pit , a cyber-crime center and a duty free alcohol shop for Fins … who could want buying that ?
The Baltic States seem ripe for ‘color revolutions’. That would give Russia some potentially useful inside seats in NATO.
Russia has no interest in attacking anyone. It never did. What Russia is obsessed with is its own security. Russia will do whatever it takes to defend itself. That is a lesson it has learned the hard way by being invaded by European powers on multiple occasions over hundreds of years.
A truth drowned by the cacophony of lies constantly barked
Sadly, they’ll never learn, but they will be defeated.
Remember those of us who have played “Call of Duty“
Quotes this post:
Comparative reading.
Original reading in https://infobrics.org/post/40796/
Original reading in https://infobrics.org/post/40796/
Lt. Col. David Grossman (ret.) Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call To Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence, with Gloria DeGaetano
Army, knows what he is talking about – desensitization. Many events show this.
“both Sy Hersh and The NY Times came out with articles in the last 24 hours attacking the Russians as inept and accusing them of ignoring the warnings. This sure smacks of a coordinated info op ” so the Deep State got to Sy:( must have scared him into conformity:)
Deflection is a indicator of guilt. It is human nature for the guilty party to point the finger of blame at others….
Fortunately Georg Häsler studied Philology and is a journalist – that makes him like Robert Habeck – a purveyor of fairy tales.
except that Habeck’s tales are disclosed as such
Habeck and wife published this :
Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf: Roman Paperback – 1 Feb. 2007
The Day I met my Dead Husband.
There is more to this than mere kids tales.
Now where have I heard of someone talking to the dead?
Your flames in Latvia are probably for the now-resigned Foreign Minister and former PM who was found to have excessive use of private jets on routes with scheduled airlines available
He is US-born so probably had lived the life
Ha, the Hershy Bar Kid, Deep Throat of the day, and I’m not bothering with the NYT.
The Germans were warning the US about 9/11, Putin considered warning Clinton that he was going to be set up with Lewinski. Putin was going to send Clinton his intelligence report, but decided not to, as this could be taken as ‘interference’ in US politics. lol
This warning by the US is all part of soft power play. Oh we’ve got some nasty Nazi surprises for you, so we thought we’d give you a clue.
There’s a trait in Nazi false flag terror attacks. They need to targeted at thicko sheeple. Let’s say you’re a real terrorist (cell) , and not backed, or infiltrated by the NWO Satanic Nazi sect. You’d be bombing places where the elites hang out, like very high end resturants, or hotels like Claridges in London, which is very popular with Amerikans, but no, they target tube trains and buses.
The point is, public events, public transport, are NWO Nazi sect targets. It doesn’t matter who gets blamed, or who takes the credit.
Let’s explain why the Nazis started the war on terror. When the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended, lol, the Nazis lost this control mechanism, and given that there were no threats, they needed to create one. It didn’t start over night. They needed to to learn a new skill set.
Take the East African embassy bombings. Just look at how thick the walls were, and they were broken like blocks of Lego™. This wasn’t done by real stand alone terrorists. The Oklahoma City bombing was a US deep state operation. There’s no way a truck bomb can do that kind of damage.
I won’t cover 9/11, because the official narrative is a joke.
In the Nazi West, they tend to fake terror attacks, such as the Manchester Arena bombing where no one died. Richard D. Hall (RichPlanetTV) is being dragged through the UK courts because he has destroyed the UK Nazi regimes terror narrative, and you know what Andrew Napolitano says about British judges, they are tools of the regime. The Nazi UK is the most corrupt bent country on the planet. Nothing comes close to corrupt Nazi UK.
MI6 sank the MV Estonia, because it was carrying tech to Russia. Now, it’s a can of worms, because NaziTube is full of misleading channels making the water muddy. The Amerikans sabotaged Concorde. We could fill a library with books just on NWO Nazi terrorism.
Between the CIA and MI6 carrying out the Moscow attack, I’d say it was MI6. The US and UK are one, but they are also the No1 double act. They work together, but they play off each other.
Good points made all the way round!! Perfidious Albion is by far the most pernicious of entities on the Divine Creator’s Earth. The really tragic thing for their elites is that they have been divinely targeted for removal. The Windsors are expiring and their demise gnaws their lackeys in the Western press. That’s all they write about. Who gives a f*ck really???? Too many sins have been committed by these vile creatures against humanity. However, the Chosen Ones who see and understand all are on Earth and are handing out justice to these usurpers. A New Era is approaching so let the old putrid one rot away and fade into the abyss with all those who still cling to it.
Well, looks like King Charlie Boy isn’t doing so well with his cancer treatment.
As far a Kate is concerned, she was probably having an affair. She was seeing an ex boyfriend of her sisters. He was found dead in a locked family bedroom with a self sustained head injury, yeh, right. Kate was pregnant, and wouldn’t have an abortion, so while we don’t know, and we haven’t seen her since when, I think Prince Lazy Boy Wills killed her in a fit of fury. And that might seem like a very sweeping statement, but what do this lizard expect when they are so secretive.
Prince Harry is 5th in line, so King Charlie, Prince Lazy Boy Wills, his 3 brats and then Harry. There’s a fair chance Harry will be on the throne. Amerika and Britain united on a new level. They tried this with Princess Diana, but she fled the US after being terrorised by Killary Clinton.
For Kate, having been married to Prince “Willy without a Willy” must have been a daily trauma. I’ve always suspected her to be on the “libertine” side and I know that after college, she broke up with the willy-less royal and took a 1 year sabbatical here in Italy. That basically translates to a 1 year c*ck-fest. Old habits are hard to break, I’d say.
I can even remember many years ago, an English patriot, who was often published on Jeff Rense’s site, he was scathing towards her. According to him, her only merit was what she was capable of doing on her knees.
As you stated, the likelihood of her being “offed” by Willy for these carnal crimes rings 100% plausible in my book. They’ve essentially repeated the entire Diana sacrificial ritual. The end of their lizard life on planet Earth can’t come soon enough for the betterment of humanity. Cheers!!!
This definitely explains why the desperate West is stepping up its covert actions…
The clock has been ticking for them Ariadna for quite some time, but now it’s accelerated to the critical point and you know what happens when you corner a rat or most wild animals. Well, they’ve come to that metaphorical end.
For irrelevant idiotic claptrap galore: 10 points
For no mention of “nazi”: minus 5 points.
Total: 5 points
Er, nazi was mentioned.
see previous comment, the time of perifidious/perverted Albion is up.
I’m pretty sure I came across and read it all
I’m not surprised about the SCREW York Times hit piece but Seymour Hersh? What’s the deal with that? For the Empire of Lies 🇺🇸 to give only a general warning to protect their “sources” at the expense of civilian lives because of the Genocide Joe regime sees Russia as an adversary is criminal. Russia warned of the Boston Marathon bombing yet the 🇺🇸 brushed it off.
As far as Russia moving west of Ukraine, sounds just like fear porn to continue the justification of the North Atlantic TERRORIST Organization. Everything in that article is exactly what the collective west does. As the homeland crumbles, bridges collapse because of minimum design standards allowing a freak accident or an intentional act (whatever the real cause was) to take down a vital HAZMAT route from/to the northeast the 🇺🇸 continues foreign interventionism on the quest to remain the hegemon.
What’s it gonna take to put the 🇺🇸 back on track, a strike package of Sarmats? The 🇺🇸 is playing with fire.
Need more flags.
for diversity and economy of typing
Larry … the most annoying watermark covering the text.
we know there is a comment thread no need to stuff it under our noses
does it have to be so large?
I am not sure what you’re referring to. Please explain or drop me a line.
The quick link to comment blob on the left.
Drives me nuts
KISS please.
My vision means I need to expand things and otherwise do what I can to strip web pages back to basics. It’s like an arms race with all the unnecessary and unwanted components of pages that try to float or maintain themselves on the screen. They might work OK on MS windows or whatever, but rarely across all the old bits of hardware many of us use.
What watermark? I see none..
It’s the mark of the beast. Only some can see it.
It is the comment popup.
Saw that at too at southfront , tested in FireFox, Edge with no overlap problem in Full Screen F11.
There is no watermark covering the text. There is green, round circle with the comment symbol inside and the total number of comments above it on the left side, not touching the text. Leave it alone and it won’t bother you. But if you hover your cursor on it, then a “flag” opens over the text inviting you to comment.
100% correct Larry. A quick word on the Swiss scribbler. There is a substantive movement in Switzerland, and also in similarly neutral Austria, to forsake neutrality and to join NATO. Both countries have some bilateral connections with NATO under the partnership for peace structure. Thankfully, there are also many in both countries who want to preserve their neutrality which has served them well for centuries, and in the case of Austria, decades. Giving up one’s neutrality, as idiotic Sweden did, is one of the gravest policy mistakes a country could make, especially now when NATO behaves like a group of bandits across the world.
Switzerland needs to be neutral and cautious. It is getting corporate refugees from German Ecolunacy like STIHL relocating there. It has a superb future as neutral with its own currency so long as it does not let bankers or US make it ordinary and leave neutrality to be an Asian opportunity
As a Swiss guy, I wouldn’t be so optimistic. Our leading trading partner is Germany and Germany is fooked. Our superb referendum system has meant that common sense has usually prevailed, but recently my fellow Swiss have gone a bit crazy, voting for things like “gay marriage” and putting cyclists’ “rights” in the Constitution. Like everyone else, we are being swept along by the tide of stupidity.
Democracy can only work if most people are level headed and rational. Modern propaganda techniques mean that is no longer the case.
Very intriguing the business of “cyclists rights.” Apparently a new “minority” that needs protecting.
Your mention of it helps me understand where it comes from.
Here, in the capital, the main artery is a boulevard with only two lanes, overcrowded at all hours by lots of buses, taxis and cars. Ambulances have hard time getting through. Yet an imbecile ‘progressive’ mayor — a female animated by “sustainability” BS, has fought for 3 years to set up a “green lane” for cyclists IN THE MIDDLE, thus narrowing the two traffic lanes that were not wide to begin with.
Everybody hated the idea but suddenly “protests” were organized by students demanding it to … save the planet. Too many cars, they said; more people need to use bikes…. The mayor won.
Now we have the green lane and money was spent to even paint it green along its very long course!
Thank you WMF!
They should just give cyclists a letter in LGBT alphabet soup.
Too late – see post on Pips Bunce here….
The Swiss are no longer neutral,have you not heard they joined the sanction regime.
NATO Partner since 1991.
It seems paradoxical but it isn’t:
you can no longer be “neutral” once you have been neutered.
There is a push on here in Ireland to create a mood for Nato membership and substantially increase our defence budget. A typical propaganda exercise; I’m not sure if it has much traction yet, but there are voices speaking up virulent opposed…
It would mean changing Constitution Article 19 on Neutrality. Already tried during the Cold War.
One Minister said neutrality was not a black-white issue. A Blue-Yellow issue then?
The entire Irish military would last 1 week in such modern intensive warfare – deja vu?
Anyway the last 2 attempts to change the Constitution this month alone failed miserably and the PM. resigned.
Still, no matter what one says about PM Varadkar, he told Biden on Patrick’s Day, green tie an’ all, in D.C. that Ireland supports Gaza , in front of camera’s. . Resigned days later.
Edward Blewitt, Biden’s direct ancestor, was directly implicated in the Irish genocide of Black ‘47 as a ganger at Balina workhouse (labor camps) “the most feared and hated institution ever established in the Empire”.
As the Ami’s “say it ain’t so, Joe” .
Agreed. However most ordinary Swiss really don’t want to get involved. It’s mainly the corrupt bigwigs here who want that. Switzerland, being small and with limited natural resources, has always had to play a bit of a balancing act with the stronger forces around it. For NATO membership, we would have to have a referendum, which, I hope, would reject it. However, the propaganda here is the same as everywhere else, and the Swiss are being dumbed down too.
“most ordinary Swiss really don’t want to get involved”
There’s the rub. As everywhere else.
“The author, Mr. Georg Häsler, genuinely believes that Russia will move to invade Europe once it finishes with Ukraine.”
How the fuck do we get here Larry? You’re the CIA man lol. I have absolutely zero knowledge in this realm aside from common sense. I know this guy is full of shit. I Asked you before about Jack Devine. You said he literally believes in what he’s saying.
That was over 6mo ago. So much has changed since. Yet these same type of people keep on keeping on.
Every goddamn one of them needs to be ridiculed daily for the rest of their lives once this is resolved. No mercy because their exuberance is responsible for keeping this thing going.
I often wondered if Jack Benny believed what he was saying. Then again it added to the comedy
The late Jack Benney, still missed in Waukeegan
Biden’s state department misses not having Gracie Allen as their spokesperson:
https://youtu.be/buQwU4E6avI
Kamal is wasted as VP. She could be a great one in that role.
As l’ve always said, the only rational explanation is mass psychosis. These are dangerous times.
The reason the US isn’t worried about this “ISIS’ attacking the US via the southern border is that there is no escape route to Ukraine.
Well, this is a war. I think Putin has finally woken up to that realization. Why wouldn’t the USA ferment terrorism? Chechnya anyone? The question is will Putin ever respond? History says no.
What is funny is what opportunities! 350,000 across the Southern border every month.
“The question is, will Putin ever respond? History says no.”
Your comment, unfortunately, indicates that it was written under the influence of Western propaganda.
I’ll try to explain why I think so.
1. The West has created the image of an Idol from Putin – an Evil Idol. While in Russia itself, idolatry is not observed even among Putin’s supporters and adherents.
Russia and the Russians are at war with NATO and the West in general. These 87% are fighting – each in his place. At the forefront of the war, of course, is the Russian army (God grant our guys good luck).
2. Putin does not dictate, but carries out the will of the people.
In order for the will of the people to be formed, it took time for the collective awareness of the danger.
In shaping the will of the people, the efforts of the West greatly helped in attempts to destabilize, cause irreparable damage, as well as in unleashing civil local wars and terror with the ultimate stated goal of destroying Russia – the only home for at least 130-140 million Russians.
Who can forgive this and let it go? We will answer. We will definitely answer. But it should be taken into account that Russia has historically acted like a compressed spring. The action force is equal to the reaction force.
3. The obsession of the elite and political establishment of the United States and the West in general with the overthrow of Putin, after which Russia for some reason should fall apart and open its bins, is somewhat reminiscent of the cargo cult (cargo worship) among Melanesian aborigines.
The Aborigines believe that Western products are created by the spirits of their ancestors, destined for the Melanesian people and must literally fall from the sky. It is believed that the white people gained control of these items dishonestly by observing cunning rites to deceive the ancestral spirits.
Likewise, Western cultic beliefs proclaim Russia’s natural resources to belong to Western civilization by right of superiority, and that Russian savages acquired them by ill-gotten means through idolatry to their leaders.
Destroy the Idol – and all heavenly gifts from Russia will move to the West.
20 years ago it was impossible to imagine what a cruel joke the Russian 90s would play on the globalists. The happiness of enslaving an alien people was so close…
+1
The Western narrative cannot accept and disclose that Putin is doing the will (and good) of the Russian people;
it would be like declaring that Russia is a democracy.
Instead their narrative is based on the fact that Putin is a mad, bloodthirsty dictator who must be overthrown by any means and finally hanged;
they are repeating the same stories told for Saddam and Gaddafi
and a good portion of Western citizens are drinking this crap every day, multiple times a day from all their media.
Ciao, Buona Pasqua
Thank you for your positive feedback.
Happy Easter I want to wish you.
Orthodox Easter is not coming soon.
Ciao, Buona Pasqua
May 5?
Yes
Like the Greeks?
Russia is a democracy, a proper democracy.
Putin is not an authoritarian, but a respected and recognized leader.
I want to convey a message to Western propagandists of stupid narratives: You can hide from reality in a madhouse. But you can’t run away from yourself.
Excellent report, thanks. I’m a 72 y/o retired guy living in a midwestern suburb. I’m so impressed with President Putin that I’m writing him in this Nov. That is if I bother to vote at all. I studied history at University and I’m amazed at how few of my associates can carry on even a minimalist conversation re world events. Depressing, that…
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double plus 1
Outstanding comment! Thank you.
🙂 Вам спасибо.
@Gera – Putin is very well aware of the attempt to sow discord with the ISIS-K narrative. That is the plan all along :
+1
The majority of Russians will not fall for it.
It’s painful to watch how my homeland in fantasies is torn to pieces to the living.
This maybe will take some of the sting out:
The British tried that already in 1961, and the Russia Czar intervened. The British have never recovered.
Now all BRICS nations are targeted for breakup. Maps posted here a few days ago.
https://sonar21.com/what-did-the-cia-know-and-when-did-it-know-it/#comment-230050
1861 – Czar Alexander II soon after Lincoln also assassinated.
I don’t want that future for the United States or for the planet.
I can’t explain why I don’t want to.
I don’t like the picture.
Such a picture will not solve Russia’s problems, but will only make it worse – it seems to me so.
Putin did not know of the existence of ISIS-K.
Not even ISIS knew!
Only the US knew due to the fine work of its EI (Extreme Intelligence) services.
Russia’s Foreign Minister stated, as he saw the bridge in “Shithole” Baltimore collapsed entirely, withing 2 seconds: “Is this a sign of awaits the entire United States?”
O! say can you see
by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed
at the twilight’s last gleaming …
well, whatever they see, it ain’t a bridge
I’ve been watching all your interviews, and saw in Judge today, as you expressed your anger, exasperation regarding this atrocity in Moscow and feeble absurd West response. I appreciate your analysis and enjoy all the podcasts I’ve watched.
Your post is thought provoking, I’ve heard the range of West stoking all the “Russia will attack EU” from a desire to sell EU war bonds, thus taxing every EU citizen since currently Commission can only get a minimal “contribution” from Nation States themselves, to the sentiment that the West is looking to throw the next cannon fodder into the debacle, like Lativa or some such sacrificial Baltic nation state .
As to what Mr. Häsler “genuinely” believes, the basis for that belief lies with WW2. Perhaps Mr. Häsler has recognized the West has attributes of fascist, racist Hitler speech, behavior. Maybe Russia talk of Ukraines “Nazi regime” elicits memories of the March all the way to Berlin. Maybe he’s worried the the West 2.O Hitler EU March to to destruction of Russia will have the same result & is trying desperately for it to work this time.
Maybe we all should step back as assess the reality of the West & EU. Maybe all of us after witnessing the full blown genocide in the ME being cheered on in the West, Canada hailing literal Nazis in their Parliament, and the US, which is about to do the same with Nazi Nuttyahoo. The EU silent as the Bird Stream is blown up b4 their eyes. Poland ranting about a perhaps 40 second incursion in their airspace as Israel every other day violates Lebanese & Syrian “airspace”.
Simply suggesting that none of us should doubt that if Russia has to go to the border of Berlin once again to defend their heartland, they will.
If anyone thinks China won’t rip up So. Korea, Japan & Philippines, using nukes if they have too, should they all decide to jump on the bandwagon or “get froggy” , they will most assuredly protect their heartland.
I personally only see the fascism , racism & desperation becoming worse in the next 5 years. And Russia will march across EU if it needs too. Is that Russia’s “plan” after Ukraine… no, not at all… but these idiots seem to crave self fulfilling prophecies of their demise by refusing to change course.
[…] Zdroj […]
Correct me if I have understood this wrong.
The Russians DID take precautions due to the unofficial warning. Thats why the attack got delayed? Due to tightened security on the 8th of March ???
That was because on 8 March the son of the owner visited with an entourage of bodyguards
Hmmm… and the US gave the warning on the 7th..especially connected to the concerts. The Shaman cancelled the concert after the warning. Hmmm…
“Until the United States and NATO come to grips with their responsibility for triggering the war in Ukraine…”
That’s the heart of the matter, concerning this quarrel.
That puts pay to the oligarchical mafia’s lie that “… it was an unprovoked attack …”
Johnson’s remark about “projection” applies to all wicked deeds and policies Russia is slandered with, and imperial US/UK/Europe have been committing for decades:
Assassinations – Lumumba, Roldos, Allende, Torrijos, Romero, Diem, Mattei, Moro, etc; and the unknown thousands assassinated for decades, to this very day.
Coups – Iran, Guatemala, most Central and South American countries, many African countries, many Asian countries. (What is remarkable here is that many of those coups and counter coups were carried out against Marxist upheavals, but the modus operandi and the outcomes were always equally bloody and tyrannical)
Social upheavals – colour revolutions, old and new.
Election manipulations – abroad and at home
Revolutions – the contemporary (but decades in the making) ideological, social revolution par excellence, where and when vice is transformed into virtue and atavistic morality into crime. The contemporary hatred and violence against Russia are caused as much by hellish greed for its natural resources as by infernal frustration for its stand and defence of historical morality and a national social contract.
Wars – Vietnam… and the long string of bloody quarrels around the world, to end in Ukraine.
+1
SO, a good possibility that the U.S./U.K conducted a terrorist attack against their greatest nuclear foe in its capital city, and that nuclear foe now considers itself in a war against the U.S/U.K. Is that where we are?
They have said this already for the last few months. But this is a pivotal event and apparently they managed to put a lot of the pieces together resulting in a clear trail to USUK. Considering they are sticklers and everything has to be legally watertight, I think it most likely that they will declare MI6 and the CIO as well as the responsible politicians as terrorist organizations. Mr. Putin has already used the word “war” instead of “SMO” and I would surprised he wouldn’t address the Duma and get a declaration of war. Perhaps he will get the authorization to declare war to the helper countries.
Metaphors, metaphors, metaphors lads and ladies. The New Whore of Babylon is dying and in its death throes and what does the Universe do? It sends signs to give messages to those who want to see and understand. First of all, we have a senile,perverted and corrupt US “president” incapable of choosing what shoes to wear in the morning let alone administer “the most powerful nation on Earth”. Then, US foreign policy run by dilettantes and delinquents provoking untold embarrassment the world over. Lastly, needless meddling in the affairs of foreign nations only to satiate the rampant greed of the country’s financial elites. Alas, a bridge comes into play, dedicated to the father of the US anthem and only miles away from the country’s capital. It is hit by a by a container ship captained by a Ukrainian causing death and who knows what environmental damage. Oh, the symbolism!! If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, the priests and priestesses in the temples wouldn’t have even needed an oracle to give the exact meaning. It would have been a freebie!!!
Well said, Peppe!
Indeed the symbolism and metaphors are striking and should not be taken lightly.
This is a case for Andrei Martianoc
It is even worse,
he is a colonel in the Swiss army (since 2022 when he turned 50).
his „real life“ experience is a degree in classical philology and then a career in journalism
now a journalist at the NZZ, which used to be a really good newspaper, but it seems to me is a CIA outlet
it would be funny if it weren’t so sad. The only danger ever to Switzerland came from France and Germany and a little bit from Italy, all NATo states today. The Western part of Switzerland came to Switzerland in the Congress of Vienna, the Tsar had a tutor from that region. Russia took away the German threat in WW2. The US has been harassing Switzerland the last few decades, so has the EU.
clearly, the Swiss don’t understand who the potential enemy alway has been and who has been having their back …
What are the driving forces behind politics, media campaigns and ultimately coups and wars? Not religion, not freedom, democracy and human rights. It’s always about raw materials, profit and strategic territory.
What was the USA at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century? The national corporations controlled the resources from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and in the Caribbean. Britain and European corporations controlled trade and natural resources throughout Eurasia and Africa.
This was the motive for the US oligarchs to expand into Eurasia and Africa. To do this, however, competitors in Europe had to be eliminated or brought under control. The British Empire was already in economic decline at this time. Germany’s powerful industrialization and engineering of the time became too powerful a competitor for the British Empire. When Germany began to take control of African resources, action had to be taken from the perspective of Anglo-Saxon big business.
World Wars 1 and 2 took place. In the end, Britain was ruined and under US control. The US corporations dominated the American continents, the whole of Eurasia and the African elites were corrupted, which ensured the exploitation of Africa’s natural resources. The USA created world organizations and NATO, which it still controls today. The Soviet Union was then the only military power with nuclear missiles, limiting US big business’ complete control over Eurasia’s resources and markets. The so-called “Cold War” began immediately in 1945 and lasted until 2014, claiming many millions of lives.
2014 in Ukraine is the marker that marks the new era.
“Stupidly”, a Chinese economic superpower emerged, which (peacefully) became much more successful than the US corporations in production, trade, technology, science, space travel and consumption. A strong economy always goes in partnership with strong politics and defense. In addition, the Chinese and Eurasian market is too gigantic, which also brings huge profits to the US companies that are invested there.
The second “stupidity” was to completely underestimate Russia.
Now either a multipolar world emerges in which the USA takes its place or the human species commits nuclear suicide. Europe becomes an agricultural Disneyland where international tourists amuse themselves on vacation?
+1
Much better solution – Disney Naziland for all to visit and wonder at the display :
“The second “stupidity” was to completely underestimate Russia.”
On this they are standing on the shoulders of the French empire of the Little Corporal and of the 3rd Reich. But they think they will succeed because they have what their predecessors didn’t: sanctions and the media!
The propaganda of the mainstream media is only effective internally. Outside Mordor, the 5 big media monopolies also have great influence, but Western censorship is not overpowering there. We also learned a lesson that Western propaganda cannot override reality in the systemic conflict. Although Western propaganda has succeeded in keeping most people in Mordor ignorant, it cannot arouse enthusiasm for war in the population. That gives us hope.
How do the people of Mordor overthrow Sauron?
We’re so far past talking about the evil administration. A 2nd Amendment moment would be difficult, to say the least.
Solzhenitsyn, “Live not by Lies”… I guess we’re going to end up with more and more people saying “yes” and ignoring the command.
Here in rural Maine, what’s my pushback? None o my friends are on board with this administration and its actions, but so what? Are we going to write our misrepresentatives?
Russia won’t destroy Europe. It will watch Europe destroy itself with the help of the US much more efficiently than they ever could themselves
indeed
I guess the op was designed as a cut-out where the instigators and the logisticians and the kinetic teams are completely separate to each other and there was no means to stop the operation once phase 1 was initiated with the other phases moving independently on its own – The 4 killers and their dependents knew that they need to finish the operation and won’t get paid in full till they do so – The instigators even if they wanted to may not necessarily have the means to stop an operation which they have no clue when it will go down once it missed it’s initial window
What is your opinion about this article/the video featured within?
https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/28/a-very-curious-crocus-video/
Also, as regards cui bono, a terrorist attack, an Islamic threat, might be a good excuse for Russia and the US to come to the negotiating table, to join forces to fight a common enemy (terrorists), and to wrap up the Ukie was in a face-saving manner.
what “negotiating” table
who’d be so stupid to negotiate with a crook who has blown his wad
Kirby (who always reminds me of the joker) behaved like a three year old whose best friend caught in the playground being naughty “it wasnt Frankie, Ali did it”
It is a good thing that you didn’t just post the link without giving us the benefit of your interpretation. Let me see if I got it:
So, desperate for losing, Russia stages a fake terrorist attack to kill its own citizens, pretending that the perpetrators were Islamic terrorists.
They do this as an object lesson to convince the US of the danger of these terrorists because, see, we’re in this together, we must fight terror together. We must join forces and to that end, please, please let’s “wrap up Ukraine.” Please, let’s negotiate.
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I can’t believe you post this only for the masochistic pleasure of being ridiculed. I can’t fathom why you do though.
I actually didn’t say any of that; you’ve extrapolated it from thin air, or perhaps your asshole, who knows.
I’m simply asking questions about unclear points. For instance, if it was Ukraine, via some “Islamists”, why? To piss off Putin? To make Russians retaliate and in turn justify NATO involvement? Sounds pretty convoluted. Zelensky gone mad? That’s about as idiotic as claiming that Putin is mad.
Whatever happened and however it did, the incident could certainly be used to instigate negotiation.
BTW, who is “us”? There is a multitude of you’s there where you’re corresponding from? Or is this forum populated by some mob of idiots of your ilk of whom you’re member? Sheesh!
Can’t you, or you’s, have a normal rational discussion?
You have been taken for a ride.
Looks like Off Guardian wet off the deep end like NZZ.
Even Reddit was taken over by the Atlantic council.
You know it is bad when wiki tells the truth!
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Jessica_Ashooh
Stop telling me what I’ve been take for and explain why would any of the actors make and publish the reference videos.
Stop worrying about me (before I have to tell you to go fuck yourself) and worry about the stuff itself.
You may, or may not, have noticed that Ukraine have been conducting all kinds of terrorist attacks on Russia. It’s not a secret. They are even bragging and celebrating in public. This is yet another one to add to the pile. Why it sounds convoluted to you, is one question. Why they do it, is another.
Maybe because Ukraine is not bragging about it and celebrating in public. Too much for your brain to process?
Why would anybody fake a video like that?
What kind of language is that? You ask for civilized discussion, and then talk shit. You remind me of those NAFO fellas, trying hard to win a war online. Good luck with that.
The “incident,” as you call it, which you strongly imply was a false flag attack by Russia on its own citizens, may be used now by Russia to negotiate to “wrap up” Ukraine?!?
Yet you claim to be “normal” and “rational”?!
Go somewhere else where you might have a chance to sell this putrid garbage
I was simply asking what Larry’s opinion on the referenced video was. I wasn’t asking for your opinion because I didn’t know you existed and if I knew you existed I doubly wouldn’t ask your opinion, simply because you’re stupid as fuck, so shove your opinion back into the orifice wherefrom you’ve extracted it.
I’m not selling any garbage, idiot, simply asking questions.
I’m sick and tired of motherfuckers of your ilk who like the rabid dog you are attack anybody who’s not running off at the mouth the same bullshit as you.
Is that explicit enough for you to fuck off?
So it is not a question of stupidity. I take that back. You are deranged.
Oh Lord. That horse left the barn long, long ago.
And he is trying to park : VW add :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irr2mAzOvBo
This is the third time this site has posted this fabricated fake video.
I think that someone is itching to turn the site into a propaganda dump.
The above is a legitimate question. There are more resources, such as here
https://swprs.org/the-moscow-concert-hall-attack-may-have-been-a-staged-event/
What exactly is fabricated in the video? The two guys chatting next to the elevators are fabricated?
Modern technologies make it possible to scrape videos proving that the Earth is flat and rests on three pillars. They could create a separate film about whales about who feeds them in the world’s oceans.
You posted a fake. Vile and vile.
Why would a video casting doubt on the event be published by a site run by the Russian MoD?
BTW, kindly save the patronizing tone for somebody who’s willing to put up with it. If you have nothing of substance to say, know that silence is golden.
Idiot – check the wiki…
Wiki means to give it credibility by “attacking” for its paste-up jobs on Covid, etc.
(non)Swiss (non) Policy Research and wiki have answer to the same masters
Jimmy Wales, the Queen of Wiki .
Please note: Swiss Policy Research (SPR) is an academic open-source research group without any links to any governments or intelligence services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Policy_Research
You have been taken by the nose.
So, Russian MoD published a video that casts doubt on the narrative they’re pushing. How does that add up?
Also, if the video has been faked by the West, for what exact purpose?
When even wiki says fake, it adds up to a hill of beans.
There were accomplices with the 4 shooters. The “men in blue” & all others suspiciously calm & nonchalant could be easily be some of those accomplices.
The anonymously published not-Swiss-no Research site (also recommended by our resident Drive-by Koran expert) of unknown funding sources, publishes a lot of “anti-establishment” info copied from Odyssey– none of its own “research” — designed to ensnare readers: against the Covid farçe, against the genocide in Gaza, all low-hanging fruit. All copy and paste. This is meant to give it credibility to push poisonous garbage like the one you are pushing.
With you and many others, many of whom have more than. two neurons to rub against each other to create a synapse, it is a site where such vile garbage can be usefully debunked.
+1
SPR is at that for a few years. The wiki link is good. And the use of ß means is it not in fact Swiss even.
+1
I think the article is engaging in Monday morning quarterbacking. You can clearly see some people were aware that there was a shooting and some were not. Lack of awareness of what is going on is not unusual. Why don’t you offer your opinion without insulting others?
Thanks for the reply. If you care to take a look, I gave my opinion and was insulted by others. No reason for me not to defend myself and pay them back in kind. Maybe you should ask all the others the same.
If you examine the video, or videos, you’ll see that some people miraculously came back from the dead after being shot.
Either the video is fake or the event was staged.
Why?
Another unclear point is how the attackers managed to set the place on fire.
Smart money says the attack was actually planned and funded by the CIA, probably through their asset Navalny before he “expired.”
or, why not, after he expired….? Let’s not be restrained in speculations
Italian media about the well know jihadist battalions in Ukraine: https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2024/03/25/battaglioni-jihadisti-anti-russi-in-ucraina-si-sa-da-ben-due-anni/7490300/
“The troubling aspect of Häsler’s article is that he appears to fervently believes what he is writing is an accurate picture of the future.” I do wonder about this self-delusion among otherwise intelligent people, but I’ve seen it in so many of my own circle about so many issues recently, that nowadays my main question is how is this being achieved?
It’s called Mass Formation Psychosis. We saw it vividly during Covid.
Anyone who still buys into the Sy Hersh roadshow is a bit,,,mentally stretched. His elaborate plot to blow up parts of 3 notdstream pipelines was dependant on nobody in the whole of NATO saying something then or anytime in the future. The Roysl Navy could have done this easily with or without Biden permission.
Likewise the Crocus attack, American intel could have picked up electronic chatter but even the decrepit Biden regime must be tired of Britains very own creation ISIS k by now, This group using Tajik misfits has long been a thorn in Americas side unlike the real ISIS.
But a bit like with Israel, DC doesn’t seem to know what to do when both its closest allies have ‘gone rogue’, I guess business as usual since Israel bombed Aleppo via Al Tanf to help ISIS/ al Qaeda from Idlib drone bomb Aleppo simultaneously.
That’s right. We should be wary of a cult of personality. I had to learn that when Noam Chomsky said during this globally staged plandemic that anyone who doesn’t want to inject this experimental substance into their veins should starve to death and suffer in house arrest. Since then, I no longer hang on to other people’s lips and do not deactivate my own thinking.
An American was likely to be stopped cold by Chomsky much earlier when he insisted that the Jewish Lobby had no significant political power, a midget compared to AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) that has a huge membership.
I do think terrorism will return to US soil. We have pissed off and continue to piss off a lot of people and governments around the world.
Not quite. When we want a thing well done we do it ourselves
Yea, return. All those daily school shootings don’t count.
Hasler demonstrates the West’s dilemma: it’s short on manpower, weaponry, realism, and brains, and long on hubris, bravado, fiat money, and ignorance. In any ordinary circumstances, President Putin would stand out as a wise statesman. In our times, he’s a virtual King Solomon.
NZZ used to be good, and we have the excellent military expert Jacques Baud.
But Swiss Banking being Swiss Banking, I thought anyway, until this happened.
Switzerland’s Credit Suisse bailed out the US CA SVB (remember the implosion?) to the tune of $250 billion which Bern loaded on taxpayers, now the bank is history. Most of BlackRock is UBS staff.
What to expect from British Investment Bank chief for Credit Suisse Pips Bunce?
This is only a tiny part of the problem.
On a more serious note, Switzerland did take the Red Army very seriously when the Ogarkov Plan was a real threat. Mil. Intelligence hinted there were nuclear mines (since removed) at the Lausanne to stop a Red tank column. Everyone knows about mountain fighter jet catapult launchers.
But the real secret was the mines were to stop France taking the Canton back!
It appears NZZ has forgotten all that. The fools trust Macron!
As per usual, we want it both ways. We warned them damn Russians, by-god, yet somehow we are innocent in warning Americans beyond the 48-hour window of concern. “Credible” intel surely should have warned Americans in Moscow beyond Mar 9.
As for Häsler, I used to think the Swiss were about the only ones in Europe with any sense, but they are truly on my poop list these days. Their sanctimonious sanctions of Russia while never sanctioning the US; their press pressing the Russiaphobia nonsense; their talks to “draw closer to NATO;” and their immediate cutting on UNRWA funding as soon as the US say jump–these all make me despair of a country once determine to broker peace. My ancestors (mostly Mennonite) were Swiss, and I’ve been there many times. Never again.
Sy Hersh told CGTN under pressure, about 3/4th mins in, that his Editor has always been the London School of Books and New Yorker, the most virulent anti-Russian, pro-Ukraine outfit, fact checked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ev4cMILOXc
The Point Special: One-on-one with Seymour Hersh CGTN Mar 12, 2023
Russia said immediately NordStream was a British action, then a media tsunami followed.
PM Truss’ “it is done”, and especially, now Polish FM again , Sikorski who is British with BoJo’s endorsement. “Thank you USA” when the Polish-Norway pipeline opened the same week.
Hersh said only CIA. CGTN did not take that , it is too obvious.
Sikorski was a Bullingdon Club contemporary of Johnson and Cameron. Quite how someone from Communist Poland had money not only to attend Oxford but to join the most elitist money club in Oxford comprising rich arrogant buffoons whose party trick was trashing restaurants and having daddy settle the bill – is beyond belief……..but much as Ralph Miliband was an illegal in Britain in 1940s although his father had fought with Communists – yet both sons of Ralph ended up as Labour Cabinet Ministers, one as Leader of the Labour Party – reveals the Hidden Hand at work where Privileged Outsiders walk on the backs of indigenous Britons to become their Overlords
Kim Philby became KGB, and his Dad revealed the “hidden hand”.
I ran into that “party trick” – Brits in Geneva. Always wondered why there are so many tea shops there! Not to mention FC hooligans, Brits, getting banned in France.
Philby‘s father was a rival to T E Lawrence. How Philby got into MI-6 is curious
I knew people who worked with him and Anthony Blunt in 6
I hope you are writing your memoirs. I mean that seriously
The Apostles or X Club?
Of course Nordstream was UK and Norway. Who else has the divers experienced in working on pipelines undersea ? The North Sea pipelines and rigs employed ex-Navy divers to do the maintenance and welding etc.
It seems only logical that THEY have the expertise in these waters.
Whose divers actually laid the Nordstream pipelines ?
https://www.nord-stream.com/operations/
https://practical.engineering/blog/2022/4/19/the-engineering-behind-russias-deadlocked-pipeline-nord-stream-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langeled_pipeline
Putin clinched it with two questions: Who benefits? and Who has the technical wherewithal to do it?
British deep water skills go way back. They found the Lusitania, in 93m about the same as NordStream, and removed the prow nameplate. That was 1935 or so.
North Sea is a totally different story with lengthy pipeline work at depths of 600 ft and more.
Today Norway has improved on that :
Deepwater remote welding technology for pipeline repair and hot-tapping Nov. 1, 2006
The Pipeline Repair System pool (PRS pool) is a joint development between Statoil and Hydro to provide repair and construction support for the large oil and gas pipeline transportation system on and from the Norwegian Continental Shelf in the North Sea.
https://www.offshore-mag.com/business-briefs/equipment-engineering/article/16754268/deepwater-remote-welding-technology-for-pipeline-repair-and-hottapping
The sure repaired that pesky NordStream !!:
“British deep water skills go way back. They found the Lusitania, in 93m about the same as NordStream, and removed the prow nameplate. That was 1935 or so.”
So their involvement in the pipeline can be ruled out. Many of hose divers died from emboli caused by the “bends.” Those who are still alive are disabled by arthritis and Alzheimer.
Skills from 1935 already means decades of experience since.
SBS out-sourced to Oil, Aberdeen.
Damn it!
Gilligan, the Skipper, and Mary Ann did it on a rented sail boat, and I do not want to hear any more about it!
If I’m not mistaken, out of four NordStirm pipes, one pipe remained intact.
The problem of sabotage on flows may take on new colors if we consider that over the past week the Russian Aerospace Forces twice launched missile strikes on Europe’s largest underground gas storage facilities in Ukraine, near Lvov.
If Ukrainian gas storage facilities, built in the USSR, are destroyed, will gas transportation through the territory of Ukraine be maintained? Most likely, only in small quantities.
Europeans don’t seem to care.
Ukrainians don’t care either – Having moved the head off don’t cry for hairs.
So the air around Lvov doesn’t have a nice fragrance these days?
Air?
1. Upon impact (explosion), gas burns out completely in the areas between the shut-off valves.
2. Natural gas is almost odorless. The smell is given to it by the addition of a very small amount of mercaptans when introduced from main pipelines into city distribution networks (in pressure reduction units). This is done so that the consumer can easily detect a gas leak by smell.
Mercaptans in concentrated form have an absolutely intolerable odor (I know from experience).
Confession via projection.
“The troubling aspect of Häsler’s article is that he appears to fervently believes what he is writing is an accurate picture of the future.”
Sorting out beliefs, fantasy and/or operational propaganda from facts and reality is getting harder and harder. With so much information in circulation, how can anyone expect the under-educated and the un-wise to sort this out??
Forced complexity and information overload, Cui Bono?
Having seen the human nature in many individuals over the years, when faced with such complexity and overload, most will adopt the easiest that hurts least and may possible benefit themselves in some way.
I still say this mess is all about economics and hegemony. Until something is done to cripple the weaponized USD/Euro/Yen printing presses with a viable alternative……..money talks with more weapons, bureaucrats and terrorist minions!
Patrick Lawrence: Late-Imperial Duplicities
“As I was saying to Diocletian over Prosecco just last week, it is hard to run an empire these days. You have to lie to people more or less incessantly to keep the troops minding the perimeter in supplies. No falsehood is too preposterous to gain the public’s acquiescence. At times you have to deceive even the Senate. ”
https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/22/patrick-lawrence-late-imperial-duplicities/
Nothing is actually new under the Imperium.
+1
Splitting Central Bank investment units off, to start ,with Glass-Steagall that Pres. Clinton repealed in 1999,
The BRICS NDB taking shape right now is the way to go.
In other words banking that actually supports real physical economic development credit.
Simon and Sandy Weill lobbied aftercare Travellers merger to get ex-post sanctification
Sanctification – meaning $billions bailout – holy greenbacks!
Enough bashing of the US over the warning they gave Russia. Look at the facts.
The US announced soon (some 50 hrs later) after the hit, that:
1. Ukraine was not involved;
2. that it was done by ISIS-K.
3. that the perpetrators were Tadjiks.
By contrast, ISIS took direct responsibility for the terrorist act by only saying: we did it. No details. WHY?
It is glaringly obvious to me that the ISIS leadership did not even know they had a new branch– “K” — or that the perpetrators were Tadjiks.
The US intelligence services must protect their informants. They could not give Russia more accurate info without revealing too much, too early to ISIS!. Once they got their informants safe they could talk about ISIS-K. They were not indifferent to the possible loss of life in Moscow, they relied on Russia’s security. It is Russia’s fault that their security was lax. The US did all it could to warn them without alerting ISIS that they had penetrated it so deeply
As for ISIS, they had been rather disorganized lately due to poor funding. I noted before that they even had to reduce their Human Resource Bureau staff because recruiting was made hard by the influx on the mercenary market of competition from NATO countries. So, a group of ISIS loyalists secretly formed he branch called “K,” known only by the CIA.
That 50hrs was actually 55min….. Kind of leads you to believe they knew ahead of time.
Washington DC cannot issue a statement about the sun coming up in 55 min.
It took them 3 years to admit Ivermectin worked…..
A technical question. Is there a way to remove the overlay bubble which says, “Would love your thoughts, please comment.”? This bubble recently started appearing on the sonar21.com website, but on my Edge and Chrome browsers it blocks part of the text. I have found no way to remove this overlay bubble or to move it away from the text.
Saw that at too at southfront , tested in FireFox, Edge with no overlap problem in Full Screen F11.
“The troubling aspect of Häsler’s article is that he appears to fervently believes what he is writing is an accurate picture of the future. Sadly, he’s not alone in the West.”
Western political elites went from “It’s absolutely certain that we are going to destroy Russia’s economy with our powerful sanctions packages” to “It’s absolutely certain that after Russia destroys Ukraine it will attack NATO countries”.
I call that progress, from arrogance to fear.
I think Western political elites might be right this time around. NATO moved closer and closer to Russia until it tried its luck with Georgia and Ukraine. That was a huge mistake as both projects failed.
So logically they fear the tide is going now in reverse. I think it is reasonable to assume at this point that Moldova and the three Baltic statelets will be regime-changed after Ukraine is brought back into the Russian camp. I also think that Russia will stop there.
NATO’s article 5 doesn’t work against a nuclear power such as Russia. Russia will attack the Baltic statelets and there will be much threatening and posturijng but the fact is, Russia cannot be attacked in the same manner that the USA cannot be attacked. The USA will not risk destruction of its major cities by going into the defense of a few million Nords mixed with Slavs with no importance whatsoever in the Baltic. Moldova isn’t even in NATO.
Art 5 should be read and the words understood