The Jerusalem Post falsely claimed this week that General Surovikin had been sacked. Paul Pierce, a retired Boston Celtic basketball player, has some words of wisdom for General Surovikin:
If they’re not talking about you, you’re not doing something; you’re not doing anything. So if they’re talking about you, you may be doing something right. And when they talk bad about you, you just use it for motivation.
How else to explain these bizarre stories claiming that General Surovikin has been replaced? First up, The Jerusalem Post:
Colonel General Sergin Surovikin, “The Butcher of Syria“, is being replaced by Russian Lieutenant General Yevgeny Nikiforov in heading Russia’s Western Group of Forces in Ukraine.
Lieutenant General Nikiforov will be the 4th person to have taken this position since the invasion of Ukraine began; his predecessor only held the position for three months.
This change in leadership has seemingly inspired some new strategic decisions, according to the UK Ministry of Defense, as a new wave of long-range strikes targetting power distributors launched on the 29th of December. It is thought that the aim of the attacks is to diminish Ukrainian morale for the New Year.
What is their source? The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. Yeah, that makes sense. Who is in a better position to know about changes in Russian military leadership than the Ukrainians?
Not to be out done by the staff of the Jerusalem Post, Anthony Grant, an editor of The New York Sun based in Athens, Greece, weighed in with a confusing,contradictory account:
As Ukrainians greeted the new year by dealing with a fresh barrage of Russian missiles and drones, Russia replaced the general overseeing much of its floundering invasion — portending a difficult winter for the region.
Out after only three months as commander of Russia’s Western Group is Sergei Kuzovlev; his replacement is the general who early on in the war led Moscow’s botched offensive on Kyiv, Yevgeny Nikiforov. This could play to Ukraine’s advantage, but it’s also one that underlines how Russia is in no mood for retreat.
While not explicitly stated in the Russian press, it is unlikely that the appointment of General Nikiforov could have been effected without the approval of Vladimir Putin or the Russian president’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu. Mr. Nikiforov can be credited, if that is the word, for having attempted to capture Kyiv by shunting Russian troops and airborne forces through Chernobyl first.
Looks like the staff of the Jerusalem Post are racists — they think all Russian Generals look alike and cannot tell the difference between Sergei SUROVIKIN and Sergei KUZOVLEV.
Turns out that General Surovikin, who was recently decorated by President Putin with the Order of St. George the III, is still the Supreme Commander of the military operation in Ukraine. (Many thanks to Cindra for locating the reference.)
I am having trouble following the logic in The NY Sun report. General Kuzovlov is being replaced by General Nikiforov, who is blamed by the Western press for losing the first battle of Kiev in March. According to Mr. Grant, “This could play to Ukraine’s advantage, but it’s also one that underlines how Russia is in no mood for retreat.” Huh? Russia is in no mood for retreat so it appoints a General who is blamed for a previous retreat? Seems like Mr. Grant, who is an editor, desperately needs an editor schooled in logic.
So who is the real source for explaining that this personnel move is an indicator of chaos in the Russian ranks? I hope you’re sitting down (I don’t want you to pass out from the shock of what I am about to reveal.) It was the intrepid British Defense Intelligence:
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revolving door of generals “probably” indicates fractures in the Kremlin and disagreement among top officials as the war in Ukraine enters its 11th month.
“The continued churn of senior Russian officers probably reflects internal divisions regarding the Russian Ministry of Defense’s future conduct of the war,” a British Defense intelligence update stated on Friday.
https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-showing-cracks-putin-fires-173442455.html
Russia’s missile barrage of Ukraine is intensifying, not slackening. The Russian Army, under Surovikin’s direction, is pulverizing Ukrainian forces along a 450 mile front. Russia is not scrambling to find replacements. That distinction belongs to Ukraine, which is pressing 60 year old men into military service. How does that constitute a “floundering invasion.”
Hope springs eternal among deranged, delusional Western military analysts. They cannot let go of the “Russia On the Ropes” meme:
The failure to decisively end the conflict has seen Russia and Ukraine enter the 11th month of fighting with little end in sight. Russia has started to run short on munitions, seeking help from Iran and North Korea to replenish rocket and artillery ammunition before possibly running out in early 2023.
A senior U.S. military official told reporters earlier this month that Russia’s “fully serviceable” ammunitions are “rapidly dwindling,” and it is likely forcing them to rely on arms with “downgraded conditions.”
https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-showing-cracks-putin-fires-173442455.html
“Projection” remains a strong psychological disorder among the ranks of U.S. and UK intelligence analysts. Putin has not swerved from his stated purpose of “demilitarizing” and “de-nazifying” Ukraine. But Putin has been surprised (and I think his generals as well) — he never anticipated that the West would be straining and failing to supply Ukraine with the ammunition and supplies needed to sustain the Ukrainian army in the field. Looks like Russia is on its way to a twofer, i.e., demilitarizing Ukraine and NATO.
General Surovikin is one serious looking dude. He got the job done in Syria. He will most likely get it done in Ukraine too. I wonder what the Vegas Ukraine Russia line is.
Big dogs bite.
Small dogs yap.
While British bulldogs sniffle snot from inbreeding.
Meanwhile, no dog out runs a Russian bear in deep the snow.
Turn the oil heater up, put the kettle on and leave all the electric Christmas lights aglow. Watch TV or laugh at your phone as the Telegram bots go mad.
Finally : war is like sex, General Armageddon likes it slow and steady waiting until the whore moans, “no more!” Zee-whore shall moan soon enough.
It’s only what l’ve heard.
LMAO!!! The visuals to each line was so enjoyably funny, & true. These nitwit delusional “Intelligence” officers need some intelligence & critical thinking skills. Geez..
My stomach still hurts. Thank you for the laughter while I drink my coffee, fortunately I didn’t spray it on my laptop…
make sure you get a good supply of copium, you’re going to need it.
you’re agitation appears to be showing through your smug facade
Tell ya who’s NOT laughing out loud these days, Stevie, Ukrainazis and their cheerleaders around the globe. The former are shivering too much to laugh, and the latter are too busy trying to scrounge up 40 year-old weapons to give to Kiev’s Volksturm.
You’re turning this forum into a clone of southfront trolling. Very classy.
Do you come from a land down under,
Where slags chunder and their boys plunder?
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better better run, you better take cover.
Have a Vegemite sandwhich, too. So tasty and healthy, that brewers’ refuse. It’s just what a growing boy needs, and it defrays the costs of his white slags’ chundering.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR MYSOGENOUS RACIST OPINIONS!Steve
As I write in my recent article on Substack, while the Russians have the means for a large-scale and successful offensive, “why bother?”.
“The offensive when it comes will likely not be the kind that many would like to see— one aimed at taking all of Russian Ukraine, perhaps even Kiev and Lviv.
For the time being. all along the contact line, you have an enemy that just comes to you begging to be killed. That’s the lesson of Bakhmut and previously of Kherson and Krasny Liman.”
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/new-years-sitrep-the-end-of-the-tunnel
The propaganda just speaks to Western desperation.
The British Bulldog went extinct in the 19th century. The so called “bulldog” today has nothing to do with the original bulldog, a breed that resembled a pit bull terrier. It is called the Old English Bulldog, was bred for looks and looks alone, and couldn’t fight a bullfinch, let alone a bull.
Unless it’s a Georgia Bulldog! WOOF! WOOF. GO Dogs!
Let’s castrate the “Georgia” bulldogs and let the Cherokee have their land back. They’ll need some reparations, too, to pay for land restoration. Bulldogs have done a lot of damage during the past few centuries.
Restorative justice. ‘Tis needed in “Alabama” and “Kentucky”, too.
Now speaking of justice, have you ever noticed the interesting confession which the Founding Scribblers put in their preamble of their Constitution? One of their excuses was to “establish Justice”. What they were telling “the People” is that injustice had prevailed since 1776. That’s an astonishing revelation given the high-minded claptrap about “unalienable Rights” which was published eleven years earlier.
Not quite. The “Old English Bulldog” was specifically bred for the blood-sport of bull-baiting.
It became extinct after bull-baiting was made illegal in England in 1835. That’s what happens when you let the Little Englanders have the vote; they even had the temerity recently to almost send their Lords and Masters packing when they objected to the intentions of their Rightful Rulers to bring back fox-hunting.
It became extinct after bull-baiting was made illegal in England in 1835
Replaced it with bullshit baiting, did they?
I agree with British Intel, there’ll be no winter offensive. It’s too cold.
https://youtu.be/mHU-LvgYgDY
……and this is what he was sent to clean up.
Ladies and Gents, I bring to you the leader of C14, in prime time – explaining quite proudly, that every damn thing the Donbassers and Russians have said about Ukraine since 2014 have been the God’s honest truth.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1610516713522561024
C’mon, Larry – are we THAT far out of our heads to be grooming this guy and his cohorts? This is Germany, 1932.
“Looks like Russia is on its way to a twofer, i.e., demilitarizing Ukraine and NATO.”
Gives new meaning to the Chinese metaphor “paper tiger” that Mao made famous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_tiger
General surovikin is the perfect guy for the job. my opinion of him from being a doubter to a believer has changed. He is the perfect guy to have in charge when you have total overall superiority and need someone with patience who will pursue a long term course of action which will result in inevitable victory and not make a mistake to screw it up . In this regard he reminds me of Zhukov and Montgomery. In addition an honourable mention would be to Sir John Jellicoe who commanded the grand fleet in ww1. He knew the only way the brits could lose ww1 in one day was if its battleship fleet suffered a catastrophic defeat and made sure it did not happen. At the battle of jutland in 1916 the germans had a tactical victory since they sank almost twice as much tonnage as they lost but a strategic defeat since the brits still controlled the sea.
If with as a leader of a country my back was against the wall with outnumbered forces against a powerful opponent i would pick rommel , general lee or hannibal to lead the army. They were all experts in being constantly outnumbered and still pulling rabbit out of the hat victories with their leadership and unconventional daring tactics. They all lost in the end but in my opinion it as due to the odds catching up with them in the end. Yamanoto would be my admiral. He planned pearl harbor which likely would have succeeded in forcing the pacific fleet to withdraw back to the mainland west coast if the japanese would have gone all the way and launched more strikes to destroy the harbor docking, repair and fuel facilities . Yamanoto should have been with the fleet instead of in tokyo in my opinion.
regards,
ralph
Of course, Rommel, Lee and Hannibal belong on anybody’s list of great generals, but the one I’d most want in those circumstances is Belisarius, “The Last Roman”.
for outnumbered armies I’ll take Leonidas or Alexander over anyone
Leonidas lost. Why is this so hard for armchair historians and generals to understand?
I nominate Fabius Maximus who defeated Hannibal. I nominate General Chuikov defender of Stalingrad and conqueror of Berlin.
everyone is transfering past generals to the present through their magic mental time machine.this is a fools gambit.every general that ever lived was acting in his own time era.there is no way to know how they would deal with current situations.especially considering they were all free thinkers.to which they owe their success and teir place in history.
You got that right. That’s exactly how they sound: like schoolkids pouring over their history lesson in awe. God knows what went in the cooking of such narratives. They talk about overblown historical characters as if they were fictional Hollywood movie stars of magical abilities! Have they ever heard of Khalid Ibn Al Walid (Ref.) who defeated the greatest armies of two of the greatest empires in History, Rome (Byzantium) and Persia, one after the other, in the span of a few short years with just a few thousand desert cavalry men out of the Arabian desert and went on to create the basis of the largest and greatest empire that ever was, one that spread from the Pyrenees in Southern France to India? It is a feat never equaled in History that historians still contemplate with shock and bewilderment, unable to put forth the beginning of a reasonable answer as to the how. But, of course, they wouldn’t know that, would they? The cook that cooked the books was not Muslim.
Ref. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi7KuSazn4
General Shukow
You mean Zhukov
Belisarius showed genius in the battle of Dara. General Surovikin insisted on full command and control, that is why I am hopeful he will win this war with the alloted resources. Sun Tzu said: the duty of a General is to wage war when the Ruler orders it, but it is also the duty of the General not to listen to the Ruler once war is waged. Surovikin, doesn’t apper listen to politicians or react to the DC Neocons.
Caesar. Maybe Marius. And if you’re talking victories against overwhelming forces, how about Alexander? Did he ever fight a significant battle where he wasn’t outnumbered five or six to one?
I wouldn’t give yamanoto too much credit. The US knew the attack was coming, they were warned by Australian Signals Intelligence and through other means. That’s why they moved their best ships.
It was used as a pretext to enter the war. The US military/govt. scum sacrificed their naval personnel.
If you don’t understand the Russian-Japanese non-aggression pact, and the make up of the US State Department right before WW2, you won’t understand the War in the Pacific.
The Japanese ought to contemplate a different strategy. For example, they could send 500k trained colonists to the islands. No, make it 750k. Then help them to set down deep roots, get married to each other, make families. Arm them surreptitiously. Order them to be nice to the indigenous folks, not abuse them. Use the Judeo-Europeans’ own deceitful, self-righteous scribbling (Constitution, DoI, 1 Jn. 4:8) to cripple them with guilt. Occasionally desecrate the squatters’ ugly provincial rag. Goad the liberators to harass Judeo-European demons one by one until they leave the towns and countryside. THEN mount an assault on the demons’ military base(s), and pull down their imperialist flags all over the island.
Instead the Japanese carried out a drive by shooting. This is no way to capture a house and expel rotten squatters. We await signs that the Chinese are able to learn correct lessons from Japan’s blunders AND to act accordingly.
Population of Hawai’i, acc. to 2020 census: 1.45m, like a small town in China
Correction: This is no way to deter rotten squatters and to prevent them from using the house which they captured as a base of operations.
You forgot Sir John Moore. He fought fighting retreat in Spain against France (Soult) His forces were outnumbered but he still won tactical victories to enable his forces to survive and, in the end, be evacuated.
There was also Auchinleck who, whilst retreating against superior forces, fought the First Battle of El Alemein and held the Afrika Corps. Montgomery capitalised on Auchinleck’s victory. Everybody remembers Montgomery, nobody, in the general public, remembers Auchinleck.
mr. johnson- this is totally unrelated to the topic. Am sure more people in the usa are thinking of Damar Hamlin today than they are the ukraine events.
i found this video interesting. have a hard time buying the commotio cordus explanation.
Are You Ready for Some Football?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/indxyHBYyWER/
https://seed305.bitchute.com/OAx0XCP2TC4a/indxyHBYyWER.mp4
respectfully.
ralph
https://thelibertydaily.com/conservative-show-host-dori-monson-who-died-suddenly-on-new-years-eve-had-adverse-reaction-to-covid-vaccine-following-second-dose/
https://www.newswars.com/vaccine-pushing-former-nfl-player-uche-nwaneri-38-dies-suddenly-from-heart-attack/
Here’s a good interview posted today. The host is a retired British military officer (Sandhurst educated) interviewing Col. Douglas Macgregor. Btw, nice to hear a sane Englishman!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2866&v=D23V6UzS3P4&feature=emb_logo
This is a great video. Colonel McGregor has a deep appreciation of history too, beyond the standard narratives.
there are a few of us left…..
I am currently embarrassed to be British. Talk about Perfidious Albion; what has become apparant that the British Intelligence (oxymoron) Services have done “on our behalf” recently beggars belief.
Not in my name.
Just remember the entire effort of “Albion” to crush the Russians (or their pre-cursor the Byzantine Empire) since the eleventh century is not made on behalf of the Anglo-Saxon “Little Englanders” but on behalf of the Norman occupational forces colloquially known as “chinless wonders” and “vermin in Ermine” who are still headquartered in Whitehall…..
Chin up, sport 🙂
Yes, I continue to shake my head at the regular vituperative references to Anglos or Anglo-Saxons, when that ethnic group hasn’t ruled Britain for close on a thousand years.
Though I do wonder whether it is really for the descendants of the Normans or for their financiers who appear to have more direct history with Russia.
That is a 3 week old video, here is the original link Godfrey Bloom interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXs–smS4w
Over the holidays, I spoke with friends and family from US, UK, DE, CA, ZA and AU. All said exactly the same thing re their local media coverage of the war.
Wall-to-wall “Ukraine is winning”, “Zelenski is Churchill 2.0”, “Putin/Russia is on the verge of collapse”. The only “dissenting” voices to be heard do little more than mention some of the impediments UA will have to overcome on their way to inevitable victory.
One wonders where all this winds up when UA finally disappears from the pages of history. Russia will still be there, even stronger than ever, but the ideological fires that are consuming Ukraine will have consumed much of Europe as well. Europe conjured the Ukraine into existence as an “anti-Russia”, but finds itself now well on its way to becoming nothing more than an “anti-Russia” itself. Having lit the match, it has trapped itself in the same flames and seems to have no inkling of how to stop it from growing into a conflagration that will consume it. I’m not sure it even wants to.
Ukraine will die because it has no national idea beyond hatred of Russia. There is no room in the new world order for an anti-Russia, or anti-anything. Likewise, unless it can formulate a new, positive definition of itself the West will continue to march in lockstep into irrelevance, and eventually into non-existence.
Negative definitions are a dead end civilizationally and nationally, just as they are personally yet the West can only offer “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy”. What they really mean is “You will be nothing, and you will be happy”. Nihilism taken to its logical extreme. The endgame as envisioned by Nietzsche and Spengler is playing out in real time. It’s astonishing to watch.
Sadly. But I totally agree with the future vanishment of Western Europe-Eurasian peninsula. Also with historical mistakes, error, wrong decisions, but the subcontinent has done, lasting over 7 centuries, a miriads of good people. As scientists, philosophers, musician composers….
The ‘European Zeitgeist’ is over.
What will happen? The same thing that happened when the Taliban won in Afghanistan; in ten days Elensky and Ukranazistan will be memory holed. The events of 2014-Victory Day will be erased from Western history.
Terror, being happy does not enter into their intent.
It is “you will be nothing but our slave.” The people behind this attack on mankind desire no one except themselves to be happy — and much of their happiness will be derived from the misery of everyone else. That is the nature of psychopathy.
Ukraine will die because it has no national idea beyond hatred of Russia
No, because it has hatred BEYOND Russia, to Poles, Jews, gays, non-whites, leftists in general, democracy and everything else naziism stood for. They’ve just put the others on the back burner and dance to the Israeli hava nagila for US-directed PR points and an iron dome or two.
You heard it here straight from the C14 horse’s mouth. 10% of the population since 2014 control the country, invincible they say, with thousands of javelins in their hands. How about that, Senator Leahy. Neocons spit in your face, again?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1610516713522561024
Gen Surovikin was awarded the Order of St George Third Class. There are 4 classes, so two remain above this. George III was the insane syphilitic King of Blighty you Americans kicked out in 1780 or so.
The Russian gong’s details:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._George
No mention of any change in the RF Armed Forces leadership in the battlefield on the Kremlin site or Russian media. The Brits and the Ukies are out of their heads. As usual.
How, pray tell, is North Korea getting its ammunition thousands of kilometres all the way from Pyongyang to the Donbass, as is claimed by those fabled “Western intelligence sources”? That’s something that has had me stumped from the first time I heard the rumour. By train would be the logical method, but there is only one verified record of a train going from Russia to North Korea last year and it was carrying a cargo of live horses. It came back empty. You can find the pictures on Telegram and in other places I’m sure.
By ship? It would be even easier to track the passage of a ship all the way around the east and south coasts of Asia and up into the Mediterranean than it would be to keep track of a train going across Siberia. Carrying ammunition, it would have to have special clearance to go through the Suez Canal, just for one.
So MI-6, you’re so clever, tell us how those crafty Russkies are doing it. How are they getting Kim Jong-Un to hand over the artillery shells that he has otherwise set aside for the day when he decides to pulverise everything within 50km of the demilitarised zone, including Seoul? The devil is in the detail and, as you MI-6 boys know, the devil’s favourite trick is to tell us exactly what we want to hear.
Via China?
I think this is down to a translation error of raw intel (a new hire last year).
What we have is a large Carbon offset agreement between Putin and Kim.
The tens of thousands of tons of dirty pollutants released over the last few Months will be swapped for the same amount of nice clean energy release safely in North Korea.
If I’m right it will be on USGS tv.
PS. It is not the new hires fault, her Latin is top notch but the Korean is from that new Bar-B-Q on the Old Kent Rd.
Thought of that, but you can bet the US neocons would have it plastered on every front page if the Chinese were supplying any kind of weaponry or acting as a middle man for the North Koreans. The fact “Western intelligence” is making the allegation without saying how it’s being done is the clue, whereas the details of regular military transport flights from Teheran to Moscow are plastered all over Telegram so there’s no mystery on how the Iranian mopeds are making it to the front.
But hey, it’s just my opinion and you could well be right; if so I’ll stand corrected.
Well, I was being a bit flippant but there are a great many ways I can think of whereby N. Korean munitions wind up in Donbas with the West’s intel agencies having no solid evidence of how they got there.
If you’ve ever travelled by train in China, you’d know there are countless tunnels. Satellites can’t tell you what happens inside a tunnel, or whether the train that left the tunnel is carrying the same goods as it entered with, or even if it’s exactly the same train. Perhaps they came from Chinese stockpiles. Perhaps they and the Russians have been buying N. Korean munitions for years.
Vladivostok is but 100km from the N. Korean border and but 200km from the port of Cheongjin. It could just as easily have gone by coastal steamer/barge from one to the other in full view of the satellites with no-one the wiser and all within territorial waters.
Quite simply, it would be in both countries’ interests to do some business so I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.
@HMS Terror
The Russians may have been short on 7.62×39 ammunition which they no longer use. Probably the majority of it sold into the civilian market prior to the sanctions being implemented.
The Donbas militias armed with Soviet era AK-47’s need it so Russia may have bought ammunition from N. Korea. Russia has decent relations with NK so it would make sense. Other than 7.62×39 ammo what else does the NK make that Russia would need? Probably not much.
They are subtle in their actions, not wanting to piss off a vindictive eagle. However, fear of the big bird is on the wane. Soon enough they will simply do as they please in the open. There is a reckoning coming.
HMS Terror – Yes, I’m sure that for the geographically challenged, China is next to Donbas.
Roombas.
One shell per and as an added bonus all the roads used get a good sweeping!
Not suggesting its actually happening (how would I, or anyone know?)
But it’d be fairly easy to do by rail over the NK-RU Friendship Bridge. Russia does share a very small border with NK, that hosts that bridge, does it not?
This puts North Korea’s recent provocations against South Korea in context. Seems like the drone incursion was a sales pitch demo.
“British Defense intelligence”, an oxymoron to be sure!
I’ve certainly gotten that impression from what Larry Johnson shares with us. It supports my suspicions that they were somehow mixed up with the Peter Daszek/Ecohealth research mess in Wuhan that led to the release of the sars-cov-2 virus.
Someday that novichok keystone cop comedy will surface for air too.
Zionist rag piece (as Andrei loves to say) Doesn’t Know Sh*t From Shinola. You would need to be a real dolt to believe these morons who keep peddling these lies, seems there are plenty of dullards still out there licking up this vomit, present company excluded.
The Order of St. George is the highest decoration and one of the oldest from the 18th century. It’s not a decoration given out like candy either with past recipients like Suvorov, Potemkin, Orlov, Rumyantsev and Chichagov; all great names and military men of Russia’s past.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, if you go to the wildly pro-Ukraine website https://liveuamap.com/ what do you see? The icons showing where the Russians are showering bombs and rockets on the entire line of contact are as thick as fleas on a dog’s back. It seems that the Russians are so short of ammunition they’ve decided to send everything they have in one massive blanket barrage before those North Korean supplies finally arrive, by magic perhaps. Not really. It looks a lot more to me like an army preparing from something that will give new meaning to the word “offensive” directed by a general who has no plans to leave the battlefield until he finishes the task at hand.
If Ukrainian grandmothers can shoot down drones with cans of cucumbers (Zelensky’s statement), then do not forget that Russian women also really like to pickle cucumbers in cans, which can be used instead of “finished” missiles. This is much more profitable than buying missiles from Korea.
Regular pickles are for amateurs.
https://t.me/zoka200/5994
Does anyone have a theory to explain the logic or end goal of the Baghdad Bob approach? Whistling past the grave is not what leaders of massive intelligence organizations do. Reporter are different, so I’m not talking about them (they are hand-to-mouth types so no explanation needed, and I’m happy to accept their idiocy). I just don’t get why this approach would be a top level strategy. It ain’t just a river in Egypt, it seems like the entire plan is denial.
Sorry to keep saying this, but what’s the real NATO plan? It is lazy to assume the people with whom you disagree are morons, or inhuman.
We know that the “elites” do despise the public but know that if the public turns against the war their political options become constrained and it might mean the gravy train stops.
There’s a lot of money to be made, and prestige and power to be gained from war so they have to keep the hype going.
And given the anecdotes I read from commenters, here and in other places, where their friends and relatives believe the pro UKR propaganda, the strategy is still working.
I think it may be no more than bureaucratic entropy. The intelligence agencies have grown into giant, self-referent bureaucracies wherein each participant spends the vast majority of their time grooming themselves for their role in the system rather than any sort of cool-minded intelligence gathering and analysis. The former pays dividends reliably while the latter may or may not.
So, while it would indeed be lazy to assume that they’re morons or inhuman, one can quite reasonably conclude that they are both products of, and role-players in a system that demands that they behave in certain ways and say certain things to continue to gain and enjoy the perqs that the system offers. That applies at all levels of the hierarchy.
As there is no competing system that they could migrate to even if they wanted to, they’re stuck where they are. Play, or leave. At their (various) levels, it could be as simple as that.
That, of course, begs the question whether the system became what it is today organically, or by design. A question for another day.
Could it be the system was designed to develop organically?
I agree totally. As someone in the medical field for the past thirty plus years, I see the same sort of decline in it. If you try to turn the ship around, you are met with fierce resistance. I once asked a new director of a medical department ” what was his vision for the department in five or ten years”? He looked at me as if I was crazy and said he didn’t have one. These are all placeholders to get a paycheck and nothing else. Quite frankly, I am sure it is the same in all large organizations in the US.
Excellent analysis. In addition, if you recognize the organization and its political masters as corrupt and daft, there is zero motivational reason to try to offer the truth rather than whatever best advantages yourself.
So virtually all organizations in Western countries offer no sense of “worthwhile purpose” to their members, something which is needed to motivate a willingness to self-sacrifice to benefit that purpose. Every action becomes connected to self-benefit and self-benefit is not advanced by trying to honestly do the best for the country.
I trip over this as well. My thinking….the USG/NATO/woke/globohomo *really* does believe that the side with the best narrative is winning. This was stated by the Brandon admin. early in the conflict and has shown absolutely ZERO signs of evolution. It sounds ridiculous on the surface but evidence abounds as to it’s tenacity/validity. Sundance at CTH covered it succinctly.
While a pragmatic person will ask the questions you ask….it doesn’t occur to those living in their alternate reality.
The Emperor has No Clothes doesn’t begin to cover the delusion.
Today’s Baghdad Bob is John Kirby. Love that guy. Always fun to watch him give a presser.
PYm,i need to point out that “Not having a plan is a plan”.
The western media is convinced that they can sow fear and panic into Russian civilians as easily as they can into their own population.
Someone should tell them about a hot-selling T-shirt in Russia with the slogan:
“I married a Russian girl, I’m not afraid of anything”
Cash Flow. This time no audit and no bid instead of just no bids. I don’t think you people quite understand how corrupt our gov/Deep State is. Trillions up for grabs – isn’t it best you, your family, your friends, your companies and hirelings get it instead of grandma on SS?
I thought the Ukrainians killed all the Russian generals 6 mo ths ago?
I thought the Ukrainians killed all the Russian generals 6 mo ths ago?
120% of them.
Just before Putin died of cancer, he replaced Surovikin.
lmao good one!
didnt Putin die of a heart attack?
He committed hari kiri because he conquered Ukraine but then wanted to give it back but no one offered to take it.
The latest iteration of “Putin’s Dead/Dying” is that he’s not dead yet, but the cancer meds are driving him insane. This stuff gets more lurid and cartoonish with each passing day, but as others above have said, lofos gobble it up like candy.
He’s not dead, he’s just resting.
Putin was bitten by a venomous snake. After five days of excrutiating pain, the snake eventually died.
Just another one of those infernal toxic males. Good thing I kept myself from biting him when I became infatuated while delivering that overlord button. “Yes, my overlord”, I wanted to say but luckily I had a drink and the spell passed. Bill, if only you’d have been half as toxic, I’d now have another daughter, one that didn’t look like a walrus.
C’est la vie.
Thank you Larry.
your insights continue to be spot on, as well as those from your readers, such as HMS Terror’s reference to wall to wall “Ukraine is Winning” and the reference to Projection.
Recall Hollywood’s drunk druged fake smiling actor Charlie Sheen’s claim to be “winning”.
HMS’s reference to Projection is an important reference to how the Western leadership recruits its constituents to support Western propaganda.
The peak of insight is HMS’s reference to negative definitions’ hallmark failure to endure challenges on the supposed road to success.
The Libs used to love Elon for giving them an electric vehicle whose front view resembles the appearance of the helmet of the Imperial Troopers in Star Wars. After using their $ from selling these toys to them, Musk buys Twitter to open up free speech, the Libs now hate Elon and trash his management style as Musk shines light on the propaganda of the Left, much as you and your readers are doing.
Please keep em coming, with much gratitude….
Colossal Lies USA, UK, and NATO countries have chased away the real world and live in an unreal world. But it is Russia that saves the real world and that the Truth is not killed and humanity is reduced to an unreal world. So already now 2/3 of humanity aspires to the real world, 1/3 lives in a madhouse of lies run by madmen.
The fraction is actually 7/8th to 1/8th.
Actually about half or more of us live in real world in West and 99.9% will if SHTF like a war where real questions will get asked like “what am I gonna die for exactly?” In meantime it’s bread and circus we indulge in.
the latest dispatch from Ukraine (S/on)
Ukraine; President Z has stated all Russian generals having turned down Putin’s offer to serve in Ukraine. They have run far but we have tracked them all down and hundreds drones are on the way.
It has been discovered that Russia never launched any missiles because they never had any. We destroyed all their artillery as soon as they fired one shot. We have just been unfortunate to have a meteor storm in Ukraine these many months that has killed many Russians. The wounded are in full hospitals all across the Russian Federation.
Russian tanks have been destroyed by our wonderful Ukrainian tanks in thousands of battles. The tanks are all safely in hiding now waiting for perfidious Russians to invade more.
Our glorious air force, space force, galactic force have total air superiority and the Russians are afraid to fly more than 200 sorties a day.
We are chasing them back to the Pacific Ocean and we will even have Crimea back as a gift from our western legal team.
We will win in the swamps, in the holes, in the bogs, in the basement. News has just come in that we are victorious!
War crimes and enduring freedom. A delusion to die for.
Sarcasm off
BrianO- I understand Ukrainium is uprating all its StarShips from dilithium crystal to quadralithium crystal drive. No further need for impulse drive in Earth’s atmosphere.
Russians are years behind this technology, and may as well give up now.
So according to the MSM, the RF started out using its newest ordnance & kept the older stuff in reserve.
Because shits & giggles?
Aye ok…
The Brits keep giving the Americans a run for their money in the race to become “Most Treacherous Nation”.
An interesting new article in The Grey Zone about how the Brits & Americans are providing cell phone tracking capabilities to the Ukraine: https://thegrayzone.com/2023/01/03/british-spy-tech-ukraine-war/ It would be great to get opinion on this article from people knowledgeable about the technology.
Not so much on the technology mentioned in that article but rather a quick primer on what is possible with tracking via mobile phones:
Smartphones are small computers with radios in them. For many years already they also contain GPS/GLONASS/BEIDOU receivers which provide very accurate location information.
Even without such receivers, the phones can establish their location by noting which WiFi access points and mobile network base stations, whose geographic location are known, are visible.
If software aka “Apps” are installed on the phone that can access the location functionality of the phone they they will have that. Access to the storage media would provide a wealth of information about the user of the phone. Access to the contacts would enable identifying other people of interest by name and their phone numbers of interest.
If the mobile network is compromised or controlled then it can be used to track mobile phones without any additional software being installed on the phone. This is due to the phones default behavior of contacting the cellular network.
Even without either of the above two methods, concentrations of phones equate to concentrations of people. Activating an imitation base station would allow its controllers to take note of all the mobile phones that attempt to communicate with it. Depending on the amount of communication that takes place between the phone and the imitation base station could reveal useful details about the phones and their users, for example, country of origin, home mobile network, a unique identify for each phone and SIM card.
The Brits have held that position since the Roman Empire dubbed the island Britannia in the year dot and their mercenaries recaptured it in 1066.
They almost won the War of Independence during the American Civil war but were hampered by those evil Russkies who blocked the Royal Navy from intervening.
They had to play the long game until 3:30pm April 12th 1945 to finally win the War of Independence:
https://risingtidefoundation.net/2022/08/07/the-special-relationship-how-the-british-reconquered-the-united-states-and-established-an-anglo-american-empire/
America isn’t the “Most Treacherous Nation”; it’s a Foreign Office Asset.
In my entire life, I’ve never wanted once to visit Britain and now I know why.
Almost all of these so-called analysts and editors working for western MSM are paid actors for the big global petrodollar network. Nobody in the west and outside really care about what they say about the war in the Donbass, but that doesn’t stop them from expressing their twisted opinions. Wouldn’t be – from a US/UK national security stand – very dangerous to actually believe in what these guys say on Russia running out of missiles, only to discover later that it wasn’t true that in fact Russia was busy replenishing it’s war inventories by a factor of 2 or 3 which mean getting ready for the bigger war against the entire NATO. Perhaps the NATO think they can bring down Russian troops moral and fighting spirit by saying that their country is out of ammunition.
Are they spreading their crazy rumors in Russian through channels that would reach Russian troops?
Good question. For sure they have some ways of doing it. But fortunately, most Russians are very well educated and know what’s happening around them. No doubt, there is those 5th-6th columnists in every country that typically hide behind democratic veneer always ready to serve the interests of the petrodollar network.
All the time.
Yes. There is such a thing.
They’re trying to spread it. Through a network of military bloggers, allegedly pro-Russian, but with a dubious origin or anonymous.
But the central state media and some opinion leaders also raise questions about who they work for, consciously or out of stupidity.
If you want to know how much the information war unleashed against Russia brings the West closer to the goal of rocking society, causing panic in the army and refusal to fight, causing a split of the elites, overthrowing Putin, changing the regime, dividing and destroying Russia, then my opinion: it does not have a significant impact. None of this will happen. I don’t see the prerequisites. Everything is stable in Russia. The majority of the population understands everything correctly.
It is a waste of life time to occupy oneself with the intellectual
diarrhea of the mainstream media and some corrupt pseudo experts. Let us use this time wisely to understand “the world”.
Raw Materials, Energy, Resource Processing, Technology, Teaching, Science, Production, Logistics, Infrastructure, Human Resources, Trade, Finance, International Organizations, International Cooperation, Disruptive Factors, Problem Solving, ….. and How to Prevent from War with Biological and Nuclear Weapons.
If you’re against something, you have to be for something at the same time. One must develop a counter-model. To do this, you have to identify the source of all the evil that has brought humanity to the same terrible point again and again for millennia.
The people who were responsible for the Crusades, the 30 Years War, the world wars, the past crises, they are dead. But their heirs are doing exactly the same thing. Because the problem is systemic. Oh shit, at this point you always become the worst enemy of the system. And Why?
Russia is the only country in the world that has enough resources to exist self-sufficiently. Even if that cannot be the goal.
I have been watching Putin for decades. The essence applies to him:
He is highly intelligent, cooperative and very self-disciplined. He always says what he wants to do. He always does what he says. And the narrative that he is an absolutist ruler is a Western fairy tale.
I found the following text on the Russian web, with a video of a speech by Putin:
“Putin said, “If a person does not tie his life to this world, to the hereafter, but only takes money from here and everything from there, then he does not value the country where he lives and where he earns money, but he values good relations, where he has property and money in accounts. And such people are a danger to us.”
Comment on this:
The sooner we realize that we cannot continue to live as we did before the SWO, the better. Russia is a very rich country. Very. There used to be enough for everyone. For the people who don’t grumble, for the oligarchs, for the officials. For everyone. But now there is definitely not enough for everyone.
Russia cannot wage a war and support oligarchs at the same time. Russia cannot fight a war and maintain corrupt officials at the same time. Russia will not be able to do a lot of other things. Russia will not be able to establish such a central bank. Think about it: In the first year of the war, you lose $300 billion abroad, then you allow citizens to withdraw capital abroad and lose another $250 billion. What kind of economy can handle that?
There is no going back to the old way of life, and the sooner the right decisions are made, the better. Winning the war and not changing anything will not work. It is necessary to change Russia. But nothing will change as long as the old cadres remain in their old places. We should change the cadres. We should not be afraid to send those who are no longer welcome to retirement or to prison. If we do not change the cadres, we will not bring about change. We will either change or die. The sooner we start changing, the less money we will lose, the sooner we will win, the less our soldiers will die.”
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That would be a start. But before that, humanity must survive the psychopaths and sociopaths of the present.
“…If you’re against something, you have to be for something at the same time. One must develop a counter-model. To do this, you have to identify the source of all the evil that has brought humanity to the same terrible point again and again for millennia.”
I think this evil is basically PSYCHOPATHS – especially if allowed into positions of power.
they cannot care for anyone even if they wanted to (due to their mental sickness)
So putting them in positions of power is like putting a fox in charge of a henhouse.
they cannot be any other way.
Even more harmful are well-connected psychopath support networks masqueraded as a ‘culture’ etc.
They bring their natural lack of honor, conscience, mercy as well as their talents for gaslighting, democide, genocide, thievery of all kinds to a whole new level…
The basic evil is the money system, interest and compound interest. This gives birth to greed, desire for power and criminals.
If the money system gives birth to greed, desire for power, etc., then what gives rise to the money system? Who’d be interested in setting up that business without first being poisoned with greed, arrogance, and inordinate desire for power?
Check your premises. You get things somewhat out of order, like the Founding Scribblers of the USA when they wrote as follows in Article VII of their Constitution:
“The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.”
What they meant, or ought to have meant, is this:
‘This Constitution shall not be established until after its Establishment according to law outside this Constitution. It’s obvious that before Ratification, this scribbling is still just fake law, which is a tremendous problem for us! We lack the necessary external source of law. It can’t be found in the States’ constitutions. We also rejected the old tradition of ruling by alleged Divine Right. We lied in the preamble about being the People, so we can’t claim unanimity, not that unanimity would solve our problem of legitimacy. We rejected mob rule, too. Moreover, the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union provide no license for our activity, so we’re not acting within the bounds of the States’ own allegiance. We’re just a clique of ambitious upstarts, mostly planters, slaveholders, lawyers, financiers, merchants, and a few dreamers who talk about industrialization. We are the Usual Suspects of Avarice. We don’t even have a plausible precedent for the pseudofederal, imperialist reorganization which we hope to impose upon the entire continent which we’ve already begun to plunder recklessly. ‘Murica. Oorah.’
The basic evil is the money system, interest and compound interest. This gives birth to greed, desire for power and criminals.
Jeez, leave a little incentive for a poor little old hard working entrepreneur like me, will ya?
Man, talk about throwing out the baby with the bath water. Were you in Kuwait by any chance?
“That would be a start.”
No the start was at least by 1963, but according to Mr. Mikhail Suslov and others in 1922.
” It is necessary to change Russia.”
That was the understanding from 1963 onwards and a continuing vector of facilitation of cooperative social relations for mutual benefit practicising from each according to her/his abilities, to each according to her/his needs – transcendance not the self-defeating notion of “winning” – , by being informed by Mr. Chou en Lai’s response to the question – “Do you think the French Revolution has been a sucess ? to which his reply was “It’s too soon to know ?” in possible emulation of Mr. Roy Orbison in regard to “It’s too soon to know if I can forget her” ?
One can always start doing something.
“you lose $300 billion abroad”
No they made an investment whose ROI is not yet exhausted.
“Winning the war and not changing anything will not work. ”
Translation is never an option only interpretation.
If this had not been the case the sentence would probably be something like
“Winning the war will be not changing anything and will not work” since the framing and nuances particularly in Russian can be “misinterpreted” by some interpreters who perceive notices of intent as ultimata, despite “He always says what he wants to do.”
Thank you for the correction.
“Thank you for the correction.”
No problem – potentially as ever – tell the truth since few will believe you, whilst simultaneously the assumptions/interpretations of others will be self-reenforced, but not re-inforced, since translation is never an option only interpretation.
Your notion of lets set aside “intellectual things” in a previous comment is possibly a misguided interpretation of “Time to put aside Childish things”, obfuscating potentials of future mutual co-operation for mutual benefit based upon from each acccording to her/his abilities, to each according to her/his needs, since the deep resentments/schadenfreude designated as “anti-intellectualism” is an effort by “the United States of America” to further divide and rule those prone to “emotionalism”, including but not limited to “The Saker” with his complicity whether br default and/or design.
“”Thank you for the correction.”
Thank you for recognising and following of “the rules of engagement” despite your likely former “socialisation” which is a necessary component of transcendence to attain “agreement capability”.
You want idealism Intelligence and? How intelligent are we really? Let’s take 2000 years of human history. How many people died directly and indirectly in all the 2000 years of wars? How much human intelligence and material resources have been senselessly wasted in 2000 years? No, not senselessly. Always very few people were enriched by it. Rethoric questions, yes. Poverty and hunger still exist. Also a crime. In reality, humanity has not evolved in 2000 years. Why does this still work? Because people are kept stupid or apathetic. Greed for wealth and power is still the driving motive. Just like 2000 years ago. And again we talk about how one side defeats the other. We cannot get out of this vicious circle.
RE: heikomr says
4 January 2023 at 10:04
“We cannot get out of this vicious circle.”
It is useful that, by immersion in linear paradigms which also include circles around a fixed point, you believe so, believe in “human nature”, short historical time frames, and that everyone believes that “And again we talk about how one side defeats the other.” to facilitate “How to drown a drowning man with the minimum of blowback ?” and hence you outline some hopeful illusions of “The United States of America” in attempted denial of Presidential decree 355 in respect of nuclear doctrine of The Russian Federation rendered law on 3/06/2020 (3rd of June 2020) and subsequently updated in consideration of other matters including, but not restricted to, matters of biological warfare.
Enjoy your journey.
You have to keep the peasants onboard because they need to know that their treasure is not being wasted on yet another of the endless wars the west has waged since the end of the Cold War.
If you can keep the peasants onboard it’s all gravy. The weapons companies, the CEO’s and their political hand maidens can cream off billions on a daily basis. That this is hollowing out the US matters not the slightest to them because a trillion in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Shame China and Russia don’t think that way because it looks like they are going to crash the party.
What has Britain got to do with this, I think their anchor chain broke and they have drifted off into irrelevance or sunk or something.
Ukraine will likely suffer 1 million dead, before this war even has a chance of ending. 3-4% of a population seems to be a minimum requirement (its often more) for a country to completely lose its will and ability to sustain a conflict.
Remember too that Ukraine is totally controlled by Azov ideologues and dead-enders, who like the Nazis in Germany, would rather see everyone killed, than have their ideology be exterminated.
Finally, they are supported by the US Deep State – who are in their own existential crisis. They will make sure that no peace occurs, and that every possible body is sent into the meat grinder.
“Ukraine is totally controlled by Azov ideologues…”
Ukraine is controlled by US/UK/Zionist oligarchs. The Azov types are just the usefull idiots used as the spearhead.
Israel is upset Russia shipped off to Iran some of their fighters. Too bad. Suck it up, Israel.
Russia’s order of ‘the number you’re calling has been disconnected’:
1) USA
2) EU
3) Israel
As CJ Hopkins said in one of his articles:
“The main goal of gaslighting is to confuse, coerce, and emotionally manipulate your victim into abandoning their own perception of reality and accepting whatever new “reality” you impose on them. Ultimately, you want to completely destroy their ability to trust their own perception, emotions, reasoning, and memory of historical events, and render them utterly dependent on you to tell them what is real and what “really” happened, and so on, and how they should be feeling about it. The main goal of gaslighting is to confuse, coerce, and emotionally manipulate your victim into abandoning their own perception of reality and accepting whatever new “reality” you impose on them. Ultimately, you want to completely destroy their ability to trust their own perception, emotions, reasoning, and memory of historical events, and render them utterly dependent on you to tell them what is real and what “really” happened, and so on, and how they should be feeling about it.”
Most jewish controlled ‘media’ like NYT, BBC, CNN etc rely on this pathetic desperate trick. Psychopaths in general lie continuously and forever, never admitting when they get caught – in stead they double up.
Here is a great book on their pathology (not just individual psychopaths – but in groups also (i.e. Psychopath Support Networks masqueraded as a religion/culture):
a free pdf:
https://www.pdfdrive.com/without-conscience-the-disturbing-world-of-the-psychopaths-among-us-e162291207.html
“But Putin has been surprised (and I think his generals as well) — he never anticipated that the West would be straining and failing to supply Ukraine with the ammunition and supplies needed to sustain the Ukrainian army in the field.”
Thank you for your service in illustrating the contents of https://sonar21.com/western-reaction-to-confirmed-deaths-of-more-than-60-russian-soldiers-is-quite-a-tell/
MirrorGazers says
4 January 2023 at 05:41
I’d strongly recommend that these people perhaps look at a good account of the battle of Eylau (Poland, 1807) — the first serious check on Bonaparte, by the redoubtable Russian Imperial Army. While he managed to defeat them at Friedland roughly a year later, Bonaparte was never able to rout the Russians like he did the Austrians and Prussians. While the French officer corps was likely the best of its time, the Russian infantry was at least the equal of the French and the cavalry/heavy cavalry/Guards units better, and the artillery then, as now, the best in the world. These people should also study up on Bonaparte’s invasion of Russia and the Battle of Borodino. My point being, one should NEVER underestimate the Russians. I sometimes wonder if God put them on earth to frustrate the tyrannical ambitions of “nations” drunk on Enlightenment principles. Looks like it’s the turn of the USA, thank God.
Larry, happy new year and my best wishes to you and all the great commentators here, from whom I’ve learned so much. Not the least of which is that I’m not alone in being horrified by what the Lincolnite empire is undertaking in its death-rattling dotage.
So, how are ordinary Ukrainians going to survive the winter months? It seems as if millions of them are being left in dark cold cities. Two million dead by March? Five million? Seems like a story with covering but nobody mentions it.
No one cares. As the great American Patriot Oliver North said “their blood our bullets” Fast forward to today and there is a border crises apparently. And we wonder why the majority of the planet are rooting for team Russia. If you are young sorry kid. If you are an old boomer look in the mirror.
British Intelligence are not idiots… but it looks like they think we are. Surovikan is methodically accomplishing his objectives to the satisfaction of Russian leadership. The Russians are not out of weapons or ammunition. They will eventually win barring the nuclear option, which is unlikely. Looks like they intend to surround the Ukranian army east of the Dnipro, cutting off their supply lines.
The current Ukranian government is on it’s last legs. The Russians will not need to negotiate an end to the war with them…. and they can’t trust most of the Western countries. The Poles are interested in Western Ukraine. They hate the Russians, but…… They know Russia is not interested in Western Ukraine. They should be (and may be) working back channels to partition Ukraine along the Dnipro…. Western Ukrainian people would have an option to opt for Polish control and the Eastern Russian speaking Ukranians have already voted to opt for Russian control. The two countries could negotiate a settlement, something like Russians keep everything east of Dnipro, Kerson and Mikolaiv and Poles would get western Ukraine and Odessa, giving them a much needed port. The collective West would scream and threaten, but Poles might be willing to listen.
OK, probably won’t happen for a lot of reasons, but something they may be thinking about.
Why would Polandistan be given Odessa?
Some time ago, somebody on this site proposed what I would call the ideal end to this war.
To whit (as I remember it):
The Russians conquer all of UA and then hold referendums in each Oblast on whether it wants to join:
[a] Russia
[b] Hungary
[c] Poland
[d] Romania, or
[e] a newly constituted Ukraine.
They might add a 6th option to join Belarus, or a 7th, to go their own way.
Who could argue with that? Referendums are as “democratic” as it gets and the principle of self-determination underpins all other international law. A period of (say) 2 yrs could be set aside for internal migration under Russian security guarantees so as to minimize the entrapment of peoples.
The Western dogs would bark, but the caravan would move on and Russia’s international standing, I’d warrant, would grow 3 sizes that day. I’ve bounced this scenario off of people on 4 continents with applause all ’round.
I tip my hat to the original commenter.
Allowing Poland, Hungary, or Romania to absorb any part of Ukraine means NATO is on the borders of Russia – I think that a win for Russia has to mean a demilitarized neutral Ukraine. Wasn’t NATO’s creep towards Russia part of the cause of the war?
That is, the Russians must pay with their blood, thousands of lives, to get the Poles Odessa – the city founded by Catherine the Great – and access to the sea in addition.
Why such gifts? Because Poles hate Russians.
But the Poles hate everyone.
Odessa to the the treacherous Poles? Not in our lifetime.
And re a ‘partition’ there will be a dead zone in between the two sides.
Colonel Cassad analyses Russian ammunition stocks….
https://colonelcassad-livejournal-com.translate.goog/8076000.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Miscalculations of the General Staff in the rate of accumulation of shells (900 shots) led in 1914 to an acute shortage of shells for the army in the field. Urgent measures were required to save the army from complete shell starvation. The military industry was not ready to solve this problem.
Although the measures taken made it possible already in the first half of 1915 to improve the supply of artillery shells to the front, the “shell hunger” was fully eliminated only in 1916.
Modern industry of ammunition and special chemicals.
It is engaged in the development and production of ammunition (AP) and cartridges of all types, gunpowder, rocket fuel, chemical warfare agents and special chemicals. As of 2022, the ammunition and special chemicals industry united 91 enterprises.
The Russian army in the early 1990s inherited from the Soviet army about 15 million tons of missiles and ammunition stored in 180 arsenals, bases and warehouses.
As of January 1, 2013, the presence of ammunition in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is 3.7 million tons, of which 1.1 million tons are unusable. That is, suitable – 2.6 million tons.
In 2020, almost 300 thousand ammunition was repaired at the arsenals on its own, and more than 20 thousand shells for multiple launch rocket systems were collected.
The real need for ammunition is MILLIONS of pieces per year.
(c) Viktor Murakhovsky
https://t.me/Viktor_Murakhovskiy/398 – zinc
Actually, this question perfectly shows why our ancestors created and stored such huge stocks of ammunition.
And how many conversations there were – “Why?”, “For what?”, “Who needs it?” and other schizoid nonsense.
Now everyone understood that they were stockpiling and storing not in vain. And by the way, after this war, there will be a serious question of the need to replenish what has been spent in order to leave it to posterity. This applies not only to ammunition, but also to military equipment.
Would seem Russia is well supplied…
INDY
‘British Defence Intelligence’. Isn’t that what they call an ‘Oxymoron’. ‘British Defence’ and ‘Intelligence’ in the same sentence? No one in Westminster could be called intelligent.
“il più antico alleato …” quindi la Francia ! sei francese?
This is as absurd as the claim a few years ago that Kim Jong Un died while having surgery because his surgeon’s hands were shaking. What next, will they pretend (as they did with Kim) that Surovikin was replaced by someone looking, talking, and acting exactly like him?
Ah, the UK. So busy talking about the Russians they never mention their children being raped by Muslim grooming gangs. Or about their good allies the French. Where on this New Year’s Eve only 690 cars and one police barracks were burned to the ground. A 20% improvement over last year!! Can you imagine either of those happening in Moscow? Manhattan yesterday, where there were 5 stabbings in a 3-hour period. Let’s talk about Russian Generals. Because we desperately don’t want to look in the mirror.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/french-interior-minister-mocked-after-saying-only-690-cars-torched-new-years-eve
The British Defense Intelligence, one of several British poodles in the US that just last month said to be attentive to Putin’s hands due to his 47th cancer, talking about difficulties in closing conflicts?! After the lost decades in Afghanistan and Iraq?! Well, Russia closed the last two wars that the CIA and the British poodle planted in Chechnya and Georgia and will definitely close this conflict in Ukraine! Incidentally, it was the British poodle that prevented it from being closed in April. with far fewer losses to Ukraine.
As for Russian generals, even a child realizes that they can’t even be seen in a photograph. I would say that it is just sad what the intelligence and especially the manipulated media in the West have come to! Because without independent media that scrutinize all powers like these warmongers there is no Democracy and without information and a correct understanding of the causes of the conflict, the West will never be able to end it. What do the US and the British poodle want? To the detriment of all Western public opinion they should work for.
For those who haven’t seen it yet, an analysis of the conflict by a Russian General Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovsky – commander in the Chechen War on TV Krasnodar, where he is a very competent analyst, different from anything we hear in the West and above all helps us to understand the Russian vision. What Sun Tzu said was important. For change, a man who understand the war instead childrens, poodles and other oddities in the Western tabloids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txx0YmHZOag
“… cannot tell the difference between Sergei SUROVIKIN and Sergei KUZOVLEV.”
This makes sense. A year ago, Putin told The West that they can choose to confront Sergei Lavrov or Sergei Shoigu. They could not tell which Sergei is the diplomat, and picked the wrong one.
As an Englishman, I’m embarrassed by British “Intelligence”. A third rate propaganda factory churning out endless misinformation aimed at people who still believe the mainstream media is a news outlet.
I suppose you have to hand it to them. The Ukraine psyop appears to have captured a large swathe of the Western public, including most of the people I have encountered over the last ten months.
I was fortunate to watch Scott Ritter’s remarkable interview with Lee Camp four days into the SMO back in February when he outlined in detail the intelligence strategy, and everything he said has turned out to be true. What has shocked – and depressed me – is the lack of folks willing to speak out and question the increasingly un-hinged narratives being pushed. There were voices in the early days, but they got tired of being branded Putin apologists. “How’s the weather in St Petersburg?”.
Most dissenting voices are coming from the right of the political spectrum now, since the near collapse of the anti war left. This has provided a clear run for “intelligence” chiefs to bombard the lobotomised post-Covid public with an endless stream of garbage to keep them on board. Meanwhile thousands are dying a week and a country is being wrecked in a war that could – and should – have been averted via the Minsk Accords many years ago.
Keep coping. Soon America will be rid of you.
Two observations:
On great commanders. There was a book written some years ago called “Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory.” It was a study of military incompetence, dealing with Roman generals like Crassus who lost an entire army in Parthia to General Burnside who, at Fredericksburg, kept throwing wave after wave of union troops against Lee’s position. The author argued a successful general is one who doesn’t lose ‘the big one.’ Napoleon lost Waterloo; Wellington won it. Frederick the Great never lost the big one.
I’d argue Lee was a great commander, but in the end he was more a tactical commander than strategic. Grant had patience and the ability to slowly outflank an enemy and cut him off, then starve him out. Grant would make a good Russian general, it seems. He and Surovikin could share a cigar and glass of the hard stuff.
I also think of Jutland. The Germans did have better ships and shooting, and yet they retreated back to their base because the Kaiser and the system didn’t want to risk losing their wonderful high seas fleet; they one they spent millions of Reichsmarks on and was a contributing factor to WWI, and it was never fully used, and finally the Germans sunk it rather than surrender it to the British. What a waste. A complete waste of treasure and effort, like our current ‘defense’ spending.
I think the Russians have patience, although like many, I would like to see them start this offensive that seems ready to happen every couple of months. It is now a matter of who can win the waiting game: Russia or the West. The West believes they have endless resources to prolong the war and waste Russia. It’s the WWI/WWII tactic, where the allies could keep out of range with their navy and bide their time. I’m sure the deep state has this same confidence. But as I’ve remarked earlier, the West is fossilized and spoiled. They think what worked before will work now. I don’t doubt that if all fails, the leadership will “unleash” air power on Russia, as they have throughout their dominance of the world. To paraphrase the comment on Jellicoe at Jutland, the West’s dominance will end when they send forty aircraft out to bomb Russia, and three return to base.
comment 2.: About misinformation. As Paul Johnson noted in Modern Times, the Germans formulated the “stabbed in the back” theory, where the Germans had been betrayed by the Jews, Socialists, etc. As Johnson put it, the Germans were stabbed in the back, but by their own government continuing a lost cause months after there was any hope of a negotiated settlement, which was all Germany could hope for by 1918. Sure, the allies were ruthless in wanting to destroy Germany, but there comes a time to simply give up. I feel Ukraine is slowly being stabbed in the back, but their leadership has invested too much to try to back off. Really, who’s going to shelter a few thousand neonazis if Ukraine falls? They might make a useful thug army to turn on all those mud people invading Europe…the europeans don’t have the spirit for it. I saw where New Year’s Eve celebrations in Berlin went wild. Muds were even stoning ambulance crews and nothing was done. And that”traditional” burning cars in Paris. You can’t ‘deport’ them. It’s getting to the point where you have to use, as the Irish say, the argument of the gun. Of course then, the Azov types might decide to set up thug states in the EU countries, like the Goths did in a falling Roman Empire, finally whipping the Huns. Gibbon would nod to this.
Perhaps a little off the topic, but still relevant to anti-Russian propaganda. I’d like to share with you my love of my favorite Euronews bimbo, Sasha Vakulina, who has been given the job at Euronews to comment on military developments in Ukraine. She is clueless and has the vacant stare of a doe caught in the headlights. But she “holds a Master’s Degree in foreign languages studies from Zaporizhzhya National University in Ukraine.”
One thing all the anti-Russian reporters, pundits, news outlets have in common is that they solely rely on Ukrainian or Western military/intelligence claims. The pundits at the think tanks will from the claims make their “expert judgements”. For example, went to IOW website and in report from some Ukrainian source, they concluded that the Russians are not adequately training their mobilized reserves making them into canon fodder.
I must be reading too much Andrei Martyanov but none of the authors of the claim have any military or intelligence background or experience. I did watch a video from Col. Mcgregor saying he thought the Russian training he saw was pretty good. I think he rated it a 8 out of 10. But what does he know compared to people with degrees in International Relations.
I know it’s a cliche, maybe a misnomer, maybe a fantasy, but the term HUMAN NATURE is slung around a lot….
Aspects of it that I find distasteful are prevalent in blogs and comment sections…
I watch a video someone took the time and effort to make, that helps me solve a problem, or use a piece of machinery…..great help….yet someone gives it a thumb down and writes all kinds of derogatory remarks and ideas….
Then there’s blogs….the pinnacle of human intercourse….someone asks something as simple as a tire size choice for his/hers vehicle….and out of 36 answers, maybe 4 answer, or less try to answer the question …..the rest all question his choices/sanity/taste/stupidity/arrogance/sheer hate….etc, etc….maybe just a mirror of what those nasty responders are really like….
This site is great, i like waking up to a coffee and an angle on happenings, rarely found anywhere else.
But, as it has gained fame and notoriety, it’s now being frequented by the same people that seem to degrade and diminish all those other blogs we all know about….specially as regards to what I previously mentioned.
This used a be an international forum of ideas and viewpoints that increased knowledge and pricked the mind…..now I find it full of diatribes, hates, venom….and as usual, they just somehow always veer of topic….usually to whatever pet hate or perceived injustice is in their reality.
I hope we don’t get to shout the words to this site: the king is dead, long live the king….and force Larry to start another one, harder to find…
“I know it’s a cliche, maybe a misnomer, maybe a fantasy, but the term HUMAN NATURE is slung around a lot”
No it is not a fantasy, your observation is correct.
It is used as an ultimate backstop that things cannot qualitatively change due to “Human nature” and has typically been used when regimes have perceived they could be transcended.
It is often twinned with Louis 16 th King of France’s nonsense of Apres nous le deluge – After us the floods – framed in the biblical story of Noah and the necessity of the Ark.
Religious metaphors have less impact in certain social relations than was the case in 1789, and consequently a “scientific” metaphor is used namely the concept of “human nature” which is not scientific, since qualitative change of varying velocities is a constant through time.
“American propaganda” is quite inept due to its purpose being to limit change to minor reforms cloaked in hope of achieving “the king is dead, long live the king” within acceptable tolerances to avoid transcendence.
I hear you.
Still 4 out of 36 is still worth it, if you get an answer that helps or points you in the right direction it is time well spent. A bit like picking between the coal to find a diamond.
This blog is a gem and continues to point out real treasures of truth.
Think of it this way, what is your ROI, here or MSM?
Totally agree!
This blog is a gem!
I think it’s a combination of factors that contributing to the current misguided interpretation of Western pundits/populations regarding the true situation on the Eastern Front and by default….the entire global conflict centered on Anglo American Zionist hegemony….we have classic projection…and cognitive dissonance where most cannot mentally process contradictory information. But how have they made the current narrative such a basic core belief? The past pandemic lockdown has been analyzed in every detail and the basic principle of Fear becoming a Virtue and by extension the Fearful becoming more virtuous by becoming more fearful has created a perfect storm of mass manipulation and control. A complete reversal of Natural Law…the coward was morally superior to the Fearless. My theory is that this majority who had the first law of nature..that is self preservation… hyper intensified by non stop messaging that effected every aspect of their lives…( Travel restrictions…. restrictions on association… virtual imprisonment….loss of employment and education and finally compulsion to give up individual sovereignty of own body…all shocking trauma events on individuals) that the masses have realigned their core beliefs along the lines that the State and Science are their savior and the information provided by them is credible even though contradictory. There may even be some Stockholm syndrome in there as a coping mechanism after seeing their elderly parents wither away and die alone through a window. Now with these new core beliefs….they will by default trust Everything they are told by their beloved caring Leaders and the usual narrative and contradictory narrative goes on ad nauseam….and the critical thinkers go out of their minds trying to quantify why.
i appreciate all your comments positive or negative. Great there are still allot of history buffs. i will look up some of the generals mentioned that i did not know about
thank you
ralph
´´So if they’re talking about you, you may be doing something right.´´ The delusional Western media has tv minutes & column inches to fill as well as good names to blacken with confidence that their loyal audience has the memory and attention span of goldfish.
The real impact of the perfidious British string pulling role in the NATO media , intel and special forces war for 404 is likely underestimated and over shadowed by floods of US money and wunderwaffen like HIMMARS. US Neocons have for decades appeared to be Kissinger´s junior partners to the Bilderberg and Davos elite who run the West where the City of London carries at least equal weight to Wall Street.
Rolling back NATO to its pre 1991 members´ borders has been Putin´s publicly declared goal since he put forward his December 2021 proposals to USA. NATO can be broken up if the economic devastation caused by Western sanctions preventing Europeans from buying the cheap Russian pipeline oil and gas is maintained long enough which is probably 2½ more years.
The SMO has provided a welcome distraction for everybody from the World Economic Forum´s green bio security takeover of all economic activities in Europe with massive flows of money diverted into the hands of Big Oil and the Oligarchs who control electricity generation which is an alternative ungreen Reset!
My focus is narrow: one week, but it is likewise wide – viewing the constellation for the entire
northern hemisphere.
not much changes in the first week ot the New Year
but this one distinctly:
the fatherly spirit is left
by Venus’
Taurus’-earth- and roots-world
and
Libra’s soul-and air-world
and the God-spirit of
completion
seizes Taurus and Libra
with human spirit
which has it’s strongest roots
on the planet in the
spirit
of the
unvanquished
Russian Civilization
the only such one on the planet
Earth
the readers of Tolstoy
Dostojewsky
Gogol
and colleagues
know what is meant
manhood
without the cynicism
of colonizators
slave-owners
and their fine society
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2023/01/growing-maturity-of-soul-for-expression.html
Mirrorgazer: Actually, the remark Apres moi le deluge is attributed to Louis XV, and he was certainly right.
An epitaph referring to Louis XV’s death: “Here lies Louis the fifteenth, second of the name of the well-beloved (Louis XIV); God preserve us from the third.”
Again, quite astute.
If you were in Paris being led to the guillotine, you might mistake what was happening for a deluge…especially of blood. The scaffold was so slippery from blood an executioner slipped, fell, and died. After that, they put up handrails. Very considerate of the Jacobins.
“Actually, the remark Apres moi le deluge is attributed to Louis XV, and he was certainly right.”
The remark Apres NOUS le deluge was used by many intermittantly including the Roman Catholic Church, Louis 16th and land owners throughout France in attempts to avoid their transcendence since the French Revolution was not restricted to 14th of July 1789 between the hours of x and y, but continued until the “restoration of the monarchy” on more than one occasion until today.
The religious connotations/framing were by design building on previous divide and rule policies in respect of protestants and other “free thinkers” including scientists who were deemed to be anti-god and their ascendency would risk all being subject to the flood through god’s wrath.
“he was certainly right.”
Your assertion is likely a function of time frame in emulation of framing prevalent throughout “The United States of America”.
As is the case with the ongoing transcendence of “The United States of America” and other transcendences, the position of Mr. Chou en Lai who had a significant role in the non-aligned movements is more appropriate namely “It’s too soon to know”, the extension of this in respect of Mr. Orbison’s observation that “It’s too soon to know if I can forget her” in another comment, was in relation to “American intelligence/propaganda” facilitities in data correlation/joined up thinking and framing.
Part of the Jacobin’s sell to the middling sort including but not restricted to merchants serving the French Empire who were a significant source of finance and influence based upon their experiences in “The Americas”, was that the Jacobins would “modernise” France on the basis of rational thought,”science” and derived productivity/reward there from – the archives in Rouen may be a useful source in illustration.
The creation and design of the guillotine was informed by these sells to maintain/improve public spectacles for the sans cullote whose complicity was also required to facilitate how to transcend.
“.. they put up handrails. Very considerate of the Jacobins.”
Perhaps consideration being a consequence of joined up thinking, unlike the Jewish lady in Independence Square off Kreshatik who forgot the salt and offered the congregation plain bulkas ?
Thank you for your cooperation in illustrating that :
“These reflex behaviours are useful to some others as portals through which to analyse cultures in “The United States of America” petri dishes which include but are not limited to:
6) Open source, e.g. press, media, and social media
but not to some prone to reflex behaviours precluding analyses who are rendered reliant to some degree on reflex behaviours of themselves and others.”
in additional facilitation of
“The world centre of kabuki from at least 1945 onwards was not Japan but “The United States of America” since “war” is not restricted to things that go bang, for audiences mostly in cultures/environments where aikido has long been embedded as part of the “culture”.”
>russia is begging north korea for munitions
Didn’t the US just beg south Korea to supply like 60,000 artillery shells to Ukraine or something because the US can’t make them fast enough even though they’re not even in the fight?