This two part series in the Washington Post is a must read because of what it tells the reader about the abysmal performance of the White House and the Department of Defense. I found it genuinely shocking. I knew that Biden, Austin and Milley were bad. I just did not appreciate how bad. On a scale of 1 to 10, with a 10 marking the biggest fuck up in history, these guys rate an 11.
Part two, In Ukraine, a war of incremental gains as counteroffensive stalls, pushes the false narrative that what is happening on the ground in Ukraine is a “stalemate.” No. What is going on is a major ass kicking by Russia. Here is the definition of a stalemate in chess, which also applies to war:
A stalemate is a special type of draw in the game of chess that occurs when the chess player who has to move cannot make any legal moves to a safe square but is also not in check. Stalemate typically ends the game with a draw—a scenario in which there is no way for either player to win the game.
No way for Russia to win? Think again. By decimating Ukraine’s army that is precisely a path to victory.
Part 2 describes in detail how the U.S. designed plan of attack fell apart during the first week of the counter offensive.
The Ukrainian troops had expected minefields but were blindsided by the density. The ground was carpeted with explosives, so many that some were buried in stacks. The soldiers had been trained to drive their Bradleys at a facility in Germany, on smooth terrain. But on the mushy soil of the Zaporizhzhia region, in the deafening noise of battle, they struggled to steer through the narrow lanes cleared of mines by advance units. . . .
By day four, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s top commander, had seen enough. Incinerated Western military hardware — American Bradleys, German Leopard tanks, mine-sweeping vehicles — littered the battlefield. The numbers of dead and wounded sapped morale. . . .
Rather than try to breach Russian defenses with a massed, mechanized attack and supporting artillery fire, as his American counterparts had advised, Zaluzhny decided that Ukrainian soldiers would go on foot in small groups of about 10 — a process that would save equipment and lives but would be much slower.
Zaluzhny’s alternative proved to be equally brain dead. Sending guys in on foot over several kilometers requires them to carry in excess of 60 kilograms of gear, ammunition, food and water. If you think that is easy then you have never hoisted a heavy pack on your back and tried to walk over uneven ground. But once these Ukrainian soldiers reached the line of conflict, they ran out of ammunition within a half hour. Who was going to resupply them? The answer — NOBODY!!
Here are the Key Findings from Part 2:
● Seventy percent of troops in one of the brigades leading the counteroffensive, and equipped with the newest Western weapons, entered battle with no combat experience.
● Ukraine’s setbacks on the battlefield led to rifts with the United States over how best to cut through deep Russian defenses.
● The commander of U.S. forces in Europe couldn’t get in touch with Ukraine’s top commander for weeks in the early part of the campaign amid tension over the American’s second-guessing of battlefield decisions.
● Each side blamed the other for mistakes or miscalculations. U.S. military officials concluded that Ukraine had fallen short in basic military tactics, including the use of ground reconnaissance to understand the density of minefields. Ukrainian officials said the Americans didn’t seem to comprehend how attack drones and other technology had transformed the battlefield.
● In all, Ukraine has retaken only about 200 square miles of territory, at a cost of thousands of dead and wounded and billions in Western military aid in 2023 alone.
If you take the time to read the entire article you will come to the realization that this debacle is totally the fault of the U.S. military planners. Arrogance and hubris combined to send the Ukrainians off on a mission that genuinely was impossible. No army in the world can breach fortified defensive positions without air power. Hell, that is the fundamental principle of U.S. combined arms. And yet that is precisely what the U.S. demanded the Ukrainians do. Madness!!!
The 47th had been selected to be a “breach force” at the tip of the counteroffensive and would be equipped with Western arms. But as Milley made his rounds and chatted with Ukrainian soldiers — from young men in their 20s to middle-aged recruits — many they told him that they had only recently left civilian life and had no combat experience.
The combat maneuvers that Milley and other U.S. commanders expected the Ukrainians to perform are difficult for U.S. soldiers who have had 14 months of training under their belts. In the case of Ukraine, the United States insisted that a motley collection of inexperienced recruits do this with two months of training. What the fuck did Milley and Austin think would happen?
U.S. and Ukrainian officials said they never expected that two months of training would transform these troops into a NATO-like force. Instead, the intention was to teach them to properly use their new Western tanks and fighting vehicles and “make them literate in the basics of firing and moving,” a U.S. seniormilitary official said.
This is nothing short of military malpractice on the part of the U.S. and Ukrainian commanders. They provided the recruits enough information to get them on the battlefield where they could be slaughtered.
I wish those U.S. advisors were forced to go to the front and try to execute the orders they were issuing so glibly to the Ukrainians. Here’s a prime example from Part 2:
U.S. military officials believed that Ukraine could have made a more significant advance by embracing greater use of ground reconnaissance units and reducing its reliance on imagery from drones, which weren’t able to detect buried mines, tripwires or booby traps.
Sure. Conduct recon while getting shelled with artillery, mortars and attacked by drones. Piece of cake.
The reporters continue to push the lie that Russia relied on human wave assaults:
Throughout the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russians had deployed new units, called “Storm Z,” with fighters recruited from prisons. The former inmates attacked in human waves called “meat assaults” and were used to preserve more-elite forces. Around Robotyne — the village the 47th was supposed to reach on the first day of the counteroffensive — they were mixed in with Russia’s 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade and other regular army formations.
Where are the graves? Where are the grieving relatives? Just because the “Storm Z” fighters were recently freed convicts did not mean that they had no families or concerned relatives. If so many were killed why was there no social media to corroborate such losses? We certainly see that type of info on the Ukrainian side.
Part 2 of this Washington Post report clearly shows that the Ukrainian leaders had a better grasp on reality than their American counterparts:
The Ukrainians were insistent that the West simply wasn’t giving them the air power and other weapons needed for a combined arms strategy to succeed. “You want us to to proceed with the counteroffensive, you want us to show the brilliant advances on the front line,” said Olha Stefanishyna, deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine. “But we do not have the fighter jets, meaning that you want us to throw our soldiers, you know, and accept the very fact that we cannot protect them.”
When allies said no, she said, “we heard … ‘We are fine that your soldiers will be dying without support from the sky.’”
In an August video conference, soon followed by an in-person meeting near the Poland-Ukraine border, U.S. military officials pressed their case. They said they understood the logic of preoccupying Russian forces at different points on the front, but argued that deep advances would not come unless the Ukrainians massed more forces at a single point to move quickly and decisively.
Zaluzhny, in response, laid out the challenges in stark terms: no air cover, more mines than expected, and a Russian force that was impressively dug in and moving its reserves around effectively to plug gaps.
After reading this report I now understand why Ukraine and the West routinely are disparaging the Russian forces as inept, poorly led and bereft of morale — I believe it is a Russian disinformation campaign. The Russians are spreading that information in order to mislead the Ukrainians and their NATO allies. It is being fed to the Western intelligence agencies and they are lapping it up without looking for corroborating information.
Sadly, this. report shows that Western military leaders have not learned a damn thing over the past six months. They repeat the false mantra that the war is a stalemate and continue to delude themselves that Russia is weak and vulnerable. How many more Ukrainians need to die before Washington and London wake up and realize that they have lost?
Strange that we haven’t heard mention of the EU and US imposing sanctions on Israel – one rule for Israel, another for Russia.
Olympic games comittee also said they will preclude any “racism” against Israeli sportsmen who are not responsible for their government actions.
And they said they maybe would allow some Russian atletes to participate as “neutral” with no flags ro uniform or anything. And that the world should prohibit Russia to harm the international sport movement by setting up any non-Olympic sport events.
The IOC thinks it’s the UN.
IOC is not payed to think.
Actually, the IOC is paid NOT to think. Speaking of not thinking…
Only in the US “media” could this be called an “embassy”. You’d be forgiven for thinking it looks more like a prison than where diplomats make contact with the locals…
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Look around US citizens, the Rothschild Police State is coming to your town soon…
the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. These five acts were: 1) killing members of the group, 2) causing them serious bodily or mental harm, 3) imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, 4) preventing births, and 5) forcibly transferring children out of the group.
No. 5 was the basis of the ICC ruling on Putin under US pressure. The ‘forcible’ element could easily be proven false through interviews with the children transferred.
No. 1-4 is the basis Israel should be brought before the ICC (imperfect as it is), not to mention Ukraine’s coup government for its actions in the Donbass 2014-2021
That treaty was written with a toxic agenda in mind. Obvious intent is to thwart effective resistance to a ghoul supremacy problem, the old one which neither Greeks nor Romans took seriously enough, though many of them were ghoul-wise. It’s difficult to be so charitable however to the host of this blog. He devoted his career to thwarting resistance, much like his confused ally in the Kremlin, a guy who was played like a golem to destroy a million or more Ukrainian slavs.
Anyhow, when reading closely the passage quoted, you begin to notice internal inconsistencies. For example, #5 is a dead giveaway that the treaty is not really about doing the right thing but about protecting the ghouls’ togetherness, which they need to perpetuate their ghoulish ways. (Consider the authorship.) Transferring children out of a targeted group to be raised apart from the group will perpetuate the groups’ genes, which may be tolerable provided that there is little possibility of recidivism to the group.
So, instead of calling it the “Genocide Convention”, let’s call it the Ghoul Supremacy Perpetuation Convention.
Speaking of drive-by shootings:
A must read.
Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag
KIT KLARENBERG·DECEMBER 11, 2023
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/11/ukrainian-maidan-massacre-false-flag/
Will the WaPo run the story? After all, it fits their ‘democracy dies in darkness’ meme to a T.
Kudos to Prof. Katchanovski. Would that we all had such courage and perseverance.
What is even stranger Israel looks like taking part in the Olympic games next year under the Israeli flag. Not Russia though. Israel is committing genocide and out right murder of innocents and nothing happens. Putin is decaled a war criminal for removing children from a war zone while Israel kills thousands of Palestinian children and not a word from the ICC.
These people have no idea what they are doing by destroying the Olympic games, the ICC and even possibly the UN. I look at Putin and his smile is from ear to ear. He knows something that even the US has not twigged yet.
What are the ICC, Olympic Games, and the UN? Is it not clear that each of those groupings is an instrument of a Tsionist mafia civilization which ought to have been slain centuries ago? How could anything of great worth be lost when they disintegrate? Opportunity costs are real.
Again, you are completely right in your analysis, Larry.
The second part in the WP is just as idiotic as the first.
After months of lies and denials, the fact that Ukraine has lost cannot be hidden anymore. The American military and intelligence “anal-ists” who advised Ukraine NEED TO BE FIRED, ALL OF THEM. They are a threat even to their own nation. They are shockingly incompetent and lack backbone. The Ukrainian leadership, with its never-ending lies, propaganda, and dissimulations is also at fault. Even if they apparently were smart enough to realize that US and Western wargames were “garbage in – garbage out”, they lacked the backbone to tell the overbearing West that they would not attack. It is the duty of a military leader not to attack if he knows that his troops will achieve nothing and only be slaughtered. Any NATO officer attacking as the Ukrainians did would be court-martialed.
And as far as the WP article is concerned, one has to wonder how it is possible that, after all this time, these scribblers – despite slowly realizing that all is lost in Ukraine – still believe and dutifully quote every single one of the Ukrainian, American, and Western lies that led to their debacle in the first place.
The emperor has not clothes and apparently is destined to remain naked.
It is truly mind boggling!
During WW2 the US had a ruthless system in place to replace generals if they were perceived to be failing or underperforming. During the Battle of the Bulge the CO of the 7th Armored division was famous for being sacked in the morning and then reappointed once his superior commander knew what was going on. The CO of the 106th Infantry division was not so lucky, even though he wasn’t really at fault for the disaster that fell on his inexperienced and undermanned unit. While harsh that system provided good leadership to the point that only a handful of 4 star generals and admirals were needed to run millions of men. But that system was let go decades ago. Failing generals are no longer sacked, I don’t think a general was ever sacked since Vietnam for f***ing up or losing in battle. As such the Peter Principle is in full effect. Officers rise to the level where they become incompetent, and then some. And despite a much smaller military there are now a multitude of 4 star generals, most mediocre, gumming up the works.
I think there is a possibility that people are not considering. I wrote an article about it recently. I believe that it was not “ineptitude” on the part of the west to tell Ukraine to attack without air cover and insufficient artillery, it was part of the plan. The RAND corporation was behind much of the thinking, and they are not idiots. I believe that the real plan was to turn one Slavic country against its neighboring Slavic country in order to seriously harm them both. Ukraine is an ex-Soviet block country, and the US has never been an ally of theirs. As many have noted, Henry Kissinger famously said “to be an enemy of the US can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal. I strongly believe that Ukraine was always considered a Kissingerian “friend” of the US. They were not just expendable, they were one of the targets. If you think about what has transpired in that light, it all makes sense.
As I read the Wash comPost disinformatzia, came to same conclusion that John R Moffett posted. Depopulating 404 while using 404 to bring down the RF was part of the plan.
404 was to be the doppelganger of the Red Army and USSR – OTANistan sends equipment, the 404 OTAN army destroys itself knocking out the RF. End game Mackinderization, China encircled and ready for picking when desired. However, both in the Great Patriotic War and in the SMO, reality played out differently than the “Narrative.”
However, part with JRM on “The RAND corporation was behind much of the thinking, and they are not idiots.” Yes, the total command and control structure of OTANistan – military and civilian, are collectively beyond idiots. The Prime Directing “Narrative” requires insane idiotcity of its functionaries. Toss in demon worship and moral deviancy, if you like, but the policies, plans, activities are not aberrations, they are intended. That they are not successful in 404, and elsewhere, really are a surprize to at least some extent to those in the OTANistan furher bunker.
Good to remember that OTANistan furher bunker has had some startling successes. Destruction of Western culture, spirituality, education, learning, nation states is a startling success. Replacing Western culure with a perverse, pedophiliac, death cult and exporting it across the globe is, at least, a partial success. Doing this in OTANistan without a general rebellion and overthrow of the OTANistan furher bunker regime is very startling and successful process.
It just may play out that 404, combined with the Apartheid State’s evil Gaza Genocide and Nabka 2 is the catalyst to speed up the overthrow of the OTANistan furher bunker regime. Of course, total global thermonuclear destruction could be the end game for good. It is a possibility, of course, but not a certainty, IMO.
NATO needs to crash and burn with or without the Gaza issue. The same psychopaths who planned and managed WW2 from the shadows also hatched the NATO racket upon the Earth shortly after its close, followed soon by SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization). After a few decades SEATO was dissolved, maybe Asians proved too difficult to control, but the NATO racket grew exponentially by the day. Every MICC freeloader wanted to get in the car. Soon the car was swapped out for a much roomier, cushier gravy train that rumbled through one national treasury after another on a mob type pretext of a protection racket. More freeloader passengers got picked up every year, but that was no problem, weren’t taxpayers born to be looted.
Then they got gutsy, and put missiles along Turkey’s border with Russia which resulted in the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK took that one down real fast, but he also began being more of a Present with time and confidence which only served to upset the Deep State so he had to go.
So in the interim the NATO gravy train got longer, heavier, lots more freeloaders, and required more money. Also, being consummate cowards, they decided to try their shiny new kill toys on a defenseless population, hence the Libya and Yugoslavia attacks. Well that was a big success! More freeloaders, more easy cash, huge lumbering gravy train. Skipping over all the other show off attacks. they felt comfortable enough to jump the shark. Or in this case, the bear.
Well as anyone with half a brain could have easily predicted, they got mauled. As well they should. Better late than never. And it only took envy of what was never theirs to start with for them to obsess and ruminate about the massive reserves of hidden natural treasures under and atop Russia’s soil, and in her waterways, and how to get their filthy hands on it all.
So being chickens at heart, they needed chum for the bear, and the Ukrainians were it. Cursed with completely incompetent leadership at best, and criminal government corruption at worst, the Ukrainians were ripe for the Siren Songs. In true Siren form, the DC vermin set about luring the Ukrainians to death and destruction with promises of glory, grandeur, and certain victory over the Russians. All the NATO freeloaders were rallied to the cause, and they gladly complied, and why not, more cash for them when Russia gets taken down and turned over to them.
And so the Ukrainian battering ram was built. Ad victorem spolias. The foolish Ukrainians believed the ad campaign and after it all they have a population collapse, they will likely break up in the direction of former ethnicities, and will live at the mercy of their former patrons, consumed by DC lies, and soon to be completely discarded by DC like so many other foolish nations before them.
NATO is a curse upon this Earth, anyone directly or remotely connected to that filthy hive is a deceitful, dishonorable, depraved psychopath. Even indirectly adding to one death for the sake of money is puerile, but openly doing it by the hundreds of thousands on the pretext of freedom is unforgivable, and that goes for their secretaries, and drivers as well as their overpaid psychotic executives. They.Are.All.In.On.It.
I agree with you. And the recent disposal of the Marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krynki, as well as in general the grinding of the most combat-ready units of the Ukrainian army in senseless attacks, is necessary so that, first, the Kiev military does not start a march on Kiev, and secondly, they are cleaned up so that Kiev’s partners can safely and unhindered enter the territory of western Ukraine, annexing what they like.
I believe the death of all in Ukraine was and is Zelensky’s and the US deep state’s objective. Blackrock/Clinton/Soros are most anxious to get into Ukraine and to ravage it without anyone left alive to stop them.
Just knowing that Soros the younger was in Ukraine, apparently in follow-on to a recent deal to dump nuclear waste in western Ukraine is enough to chill the blood. Clearly the NWO plan is to make the Ukraine nation a monument to Sauron.
This article lists the many companies involved, as well as the organizations that have acquired other farmland, all are GM companies. https://magyarnemzet.hu/english/2023/12/new-soros-plan-to-bury-chemical-waste-in-ukrainian-farmland
Well, you’re half way there… The Cliff Notes version:
The object of the exercise is to prepare the WHOLE WORLD to accept, nay BEG, the Rothschild/Council For Inclusive Capitalism/WEF/Climate Change-NetZero(tm)/Population Control Cabal to implement their Great Reset NeoSerfdom Agenda… y’know, “you will own nothing and (especially) BE HAPPY… OR ELSE.
All that was required was to plant sociopaths (like Bojo, Freeland, Macron) and useful fools via Young Leaders programs (i.e. Trudeau, Ahern and Merkel), educate/bribe the corporate/tech class at Davos and Bilderberg meetings etc. (Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos etc.), nudge the US to elect a string of morons for Prez (Bush the 2nd, Trump), slimy crooks (Clinton, Obozo, Bribe’em) and a Congress full of clapping seals via the campaign-funding leverage of AIPAC.
Then set the largest militaries/economies, US/ZATO, Russia and China at each other’s throats over manufactured/tribal “crises” and Bob’s yer Uncle, a New World Order with the Rothschilds pulling the strings like the Wizard of Oz.
Throw in a couple “events” like 9/11/Global War on Terror (remember that gem in Iraq/Afghan/Libya?), the 2008 Sub-Prime Mortgage Scam, Maidan, uncontrolled “refugee” migrations and make zero-rate money available to con all central banks into literal $10s of trillions of un-repayable debt.. and then jack up the rates and collect the “interest”.
But then Putin, Xi, BRICS+, and Bitcoin happened… 200+ years into it, No Turning Back now… Nuland, Blinky and Sullivan are in quadruple-down lie-yer-face-off mode with Nutty-yahoo keeping the world’s social-media concern-trolls focused on dead babies in Gaza. Don’t let the captured MSM EVER mention the Balfour Declaration or Sykes-Picotte lest the public find out the Rothschilds have ACTIVELY been in this slime up to their Zionist necks for over 100 years.
I think that about covers it…
Tucker Carlson just did a l-o-n-g interview with Alex Jones. No matter what ones personal views of Jones are it can’t be denied that he has been ahead of the curve when it comes to articulating (& gesticulating !!) the NWOs plans/great reset/everything else that’s happening. It’s long been obvious nothing is by chance & the media EVERYWHERE are NOT going to be informing the ordinary man about what’s ‘coming down the pike’, that’s for certain. Anyone attempting to do so quickly feels their wrath. We have dark times ahead people.
Your analysis is about as close to accurate truth as I have seen anywhere.
99% of western people do not see and/or refuse to see what is going on.
Even Blinken, Nuland, Biden, Bush, Clinton…do not know or see the big picture.
They are just higher level puppets.
I am a Canadian prairies born wage slave system hating rebel who first traveled to Ukraine in 2013 for the beautiful women shown online.
I had a great first trip to Ukraine. I returned again and again. 18 times before finally moving there in 2021 to escape Canadian covid lockdowns.
Why did Ukraine become so attractive to me? Women were 1 factor- but the bigger one was- there was virtually no english there.
I was blissfully isolated from the wage slave programming that people of the west are subject to 24/7.
I could see the “WSS” from the outside.
Because I did not know Russian- I was not aware of the nazi ideology.
Pre war I had already been following The Duran and Gonzalo. I actually met with Gonzalo a couple times in the months before the war started.
I shared the Gonzalos views on many things- both his red pill content and his views on the war, but kept my views to myself.
A few months after the war broke out, I left Ukraine.
As I look back now I see so many reasons why & how America/NATO(more accurately their “owners” that you refer to) so easily & callously used the Ukrainians.
In my view there are a lot more “chosen ones” machinations behind this war than anyone is acknowledging or willing to admit.
Ukraine was 95% Orthodox and 100% owned & controlled by the 2% “chosen ones”.
How many “chosen ones” do you think have died in the war in Ukraine? I am willing to bet near zero.
Goal #1 was weakening Russia with the aim of gaining control of Russia by the “evil cabal” based in London, New York and a few European cities.
Goal #2 was killing orthodox slavs.
Goal #3 was gaining control of Ukraine by said “evil cabal”.
Fortunately Putin/Russia and Xi/China years ago saw reality and began to set up BRICS.
Now BRICS+ has reached critical mass and they are ready enough to cut ties with the “evil cabal” owned and controlled west.
It is my opinion that Putin was in UAE and Saudi Arabia one day and met with the President of Iran the next day to coordinate the response to the coming attack on Iran.
I believe the Eisenhower carrier group is in the Persian Gulf as an irresistible target for Iran to counterstrike when America attacks Iran. This is meant to give America the pretext to go nuclear(metaphorically or IRL) in response.
I think Russia and China are coordinating restraint amongst the incoming BRICS Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia- to not take the bait when Iran is attacked.
To not let divisions arise.
I am sure they are also discussing/coordinating economic and financial system plans for 2024.
2024 is going to be the most dangerous year in the past 100 with the US election and the “evil cabal” losing control as “their” western financial system is collapsing and BRICS is poised to completely break free of “their” western financial system.
Sometime in the next 24 months the world is literally going to divide in 2.
The west is going into catastrophic economic and societal collapse.
The BRICS are doing their damndest to avoid getting sucked into war and being dragged down by the imploding west.
Anyone who thinks Trump is a moron — is one.
Bazza said: “Anyone who thinks Trump is a moron — is one.”
Have you not read ANY of my posts here? OK, both barrels:
Trump inherited a wealthy platform for his business “empire”, if you call stiffing contractors and serial bankruptcy being successful. The lurid details leading to his family’s draft-dodging, slumlord rise is well documented. He was astute (lucky?) enough to hire competent corporate types and crafty bankruptcy lawyers. But he leads with his ego, and believes his own PR BS.
Wisdom begins with self-awareness… but he’s going bald and is so vain he tries to hide it with the most extreme comb-over in history. Trophy wives and extramarital dalliances speak to his personal insecurity, not a well-grounded personality. He has extreme responses to emotional triggers, like cruise-missiles to Syria because his daughter was upset about fictitious attacks on children. But do we hear him speaking out against what Zionist Israel is doing in Gaza? Not a peep.
Like most of the wealthy/powerful, business types and politicians, he is clever and ruthless, rather than intelligent and empathetic. The guy can’t even understand foreign policy when it is bullet-pointed for him. Joe Bribe’em was always a crook, and is now a senile one, but what’s Trump’s excuse… he’s been like this since forever.
Contrast that with the how Putin and Xi intentionally booted out the parasites, leading their own countries and now the BRICS+ to stable, self-reliant, cooperative and healthy economies.
Trumpy couldn’t even get control of the US’s borders, end the pointless wars, or fix the US’s crumbling infrastructure, and just because Bribe’em et,al. are worse is no measuring stick. It is a symptom of just how broken the US is that there are no better candidates than we see lining up for the Uniparty. Unfortunately, RFKjr’s past baggage is too full of avoidable missteps to be ignored… he may now be a truly changed and moral person, but the US can’t afford someone who still supports Zionist Israel. Not any of them.
The US still has a LONG way to fall before it realizes, like all addicts, it must heal itself of its many self-inflicted destructive behaviours, stop attempting total hegemony over others.
Moron was simply a short-form for the above.
Never in history has such a huge swath of land been managed by so many violent morons. The Ukrainians frittered away their best human and natural resources for new houses and flashy cars. Has there ever in history been a people so stupid.
I really miss the Romans. They would have shut down that casino the first week, routed intruders, and set up a functional province.
Boycott list.
the super k quote was on target, on time. as well the white people killing white people.
one more consideration regarding motives – as i understand it the $funding$ going to the ukies is not auditable, at least it was not early on.
lots of cash floating around … anyone with an IQ over room temperature had a pretty good idea what could likely happen.
knowing what you know about the guys who took over from uncle sam, wouldn’t you have a Plan B and some $$ stashed there ? i would.
how much of that cash found it’s way back to the big guy’s friends ? or to numbered accounts of the peepul that Mr. Johnson decided he didn’t want to work with anymore ?
perhaps the actual objectives of this operation succeeded, brilliantly according to plan.
no air support ? like bay of pigs ?
i simply don’t believe “ they “ are that stupid. and if “ they “ are, then it is just a matter of time.
You are right except for the author of the plan. George Soros plan to keep NATO relevant. Use an Eastern European country as a proxy to fight Russia. https://archive.org/details/toward-a-new-world-order
“US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reportedly told members of Congress that unless they approve more funding to Ukraine, Americans will be sent to fight Russia directly, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Thursday.”
Shows far too much of Austin’s ‘inner workings’:
Any country that de facto declares war on another country and demands others physically fight it but is fearful of sending its own to the battlefield is a country led by cowards.
Any person who would exploit that fear to force such people to do what they would otherwise not do is a person of low moral character.
America has been publicly shamed by cowardly military leaders for a long time. At least as far back as the USS Liberty. Not to take away from individual, valiant, and honorable servicemen who by the way should no longer be in the direct or indirect employ of the Pentagon, but the defense racket no longer serves us. It has morphed into a corporate tapeworm and feeds off all of us from the inside at our expense for nothing in return. Not even basic international safety. Nor for that matter the post combat care of physically and or mentally wounded servicemen destroying their own lives for Defense Department cowards and racketeers and their bank accounts. As for the KIA, and all their widows and orphans, DOD spits out a check at them and moves on to the next disposable serviceman, filling his head with values they don’t believe in themselves, like patriotism, loyalty, honor, valor, bravery, etc.
The first thing is to stop feeding the parasite. Dissuade anyone whenever possible from enlisting and point out that the warmongers prohibit their own spawn from joining the racket.
The second thing is to default into lies whenever they speak and then sift through what they say for the truth, assuming a few words might be so. A bit like when the police are listening to a career criminal explaining whatever.
And last, know who you are and avoid what they are pushing at every level, personally boycott if you have to, it does not have to be a mass production but a personal decision. Avoid their scurrilous suggestions about life, ignore their ignorant statements about distant places considering that they do not have even basic knowledge, and avoid the lures of their many vile entertainments which start off small and then cleverly and quietly descend into swill.
Y’think little Georgy Swartz thought that up all by himself? Let alone managed to coordinate the entire US gov’t/Uniparty via CIA/Nuland-Kagan and Company NeoCons in orchestrating the Ukraine Debacle? He is a Rothschild Minion, and understands his place in the Great Reset/WEF/Council For Inclusive Capitalism/Climate Change-NetZero(tm) Agenda. Destabilizing economies is Georgy’s forte, and keeps the Rothschild hands out of direct view. People know of the Rothschild’s direct activities during the Napoleonic Wars.
ZATO was never relevant, it is a construct to hide behind. To make it SEEM that Europe is not still post-WW2 Occupied Territory. Germany, Italy and Poland militarily, as well as the rest economically. Georgy simply waves the Rothschild hand, “These are not the hegemons you’re looking for.”
Aw, c’mon folks… just like one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter, it’s only “corruption” when the other side does it. Which is the nature of Zaluzhny’s “surprise”. He never thought HIS Nazis would steal from HIS military… and he believed the US/ZATO gear and training was up to facing Russian gear, experience and ingenuity.
Same for the US/ZATO… no one ever expected the US MIC was so massively stealing from the US gov’t/taxpayer (the hand that feeds it) by providing sub-standard materiale at top-gear prices. It all looked SO shiny and invincible sitting in the hangars and on the so-tailored firing ranges, to inexperienced politicians and armchair generals.
All this built on the sandy foundation of SANCTIONS. More business-as-usual corruption, except Putin and Xi had already eliminated the US/ZATO/Rothschild-central-banker parasites that the sanctions depended on.
The emperor is indeed sans raiment…
I think Catherine Austin Fitts, and that other dude, stipulated 40 TRILLIONS plowed into unacnowleged black projects, since the security act of’46. Huge number, but she is a real number crusher, probably correct.
Cui bono? How many billions of US dollars go missing in action, into the pockets of one set of thieves or another? Milley and Austin and the rest are set up for life with the crumbs that fall off the MIC table. The US analysts — do they really believe the dreck they write?and espouse? Or just collect the paycheck and the bennies that go with yes-manning? And the sortition of combat — kills the least nazified, while the worst “nationalists” sit in the second echelon, shooting the mopes who get dragooned and formed into meat waves but then see the death in front of them and try to retreat or surrender. I’m guessing the imperial leadership gets off on the death of whole nations. As long as ever more wealth gets transferred from the real economies of the US and the rest of the Golden Billion into their f$$king pockets.
Will Russia prevail, and somehow cordon off the nascent multipolar redevelopment? The “west” continues to develop more horrible weapons, biological and cyber and autonomous. Will the Death Cult that owns the mopes of the West “release the kraken” to make a last grasp at hegemony over the slaughterhouse? Given the clout of the Likudnik and renascent Nazi cadres in Western ruling elites and the perverse way they embrace mass killing (including by pandemic disease unabated by profit-driven “public health” charades), what’s the likely end point for our species?
don’t fire them, promote them.
Nuland for Sec of State
Blinken should replace Harris, so that Biden can move on
….
they are still needed to deal with the problem of exceptionalism.
they are on a roll ..
Late morning musings:
Egos (hubris if you prefer) in the process of deflation is an interesting phenomenon. The way I see it, there are two paths it can take:
1) an orderly, linear process, like the deflation of a balloon (or is that exponential?). In any case, orderly.
2) The one followed here, I think. Where once the ego has been threatened, it doubles down in trying to reinflate itself; in this case, exacerbated by western and ukrainian egos coupled in a synergistic dance macabre of sorts.
Egos, like balloons or tires or anything containing them, have certain physical limits to how far they can be inflated before rupturing. Then you have a sudden uncontrolled, disorderly deflation, preceeded by a bang. It could be, without another round of western inflation efforts – we’re fast approaching the bang.
That said, what about the ‘irresistible force paradox?’
The irresistible force paradox, is a classic paradox formulated as “What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?”
Ukraine’s retrenchment to defensive lines is an attempt at creating an immovable object, in imitation of the Surovikin ‘immovable line’. Will it work? If so, then it’s a true stalemate. If not, well – paradoxes are never meant to sit around unresolved forever.
Don’t mind me, I’m just ruminating and avoiding business paradoxes of my own as a break.
If I know the WaPo, (after all, Robert Kagan is on the board) they’re just trying to set the stage for a NATO intervention, certainly in the air and maybe on the ground too. Well, we’ll see how that works out.
I briefly thought that too. But they’re not THAT stupid. Are they?
Yes they are but luckily, they’re armchair warriors and would turn tail and run with the first F-16 or whatever they mustered downed by a fifteen year old S-400 system.
A NATO intervention would last about a week.
Then they’d be out of fuel, out of ammo, out of weapons, out of troops (most of whom will have decamped), and absolutely bloody. And all their European staging points will have been obliterated.
It appears Austin (threatening to send US troops if the Ukraine aid package is stalled) and the Biden admin are panicking at the thought of conducting an election campaign in 2024 with the Ukraine defeat millstone hung on their necks , a powder keg in the Middle East , coupled with the ascendance of Russian influence in West Asia.
Hence the need at all costs to continue the war in Ukraine so as not to have to admit the defeat prior to the election and the terrible loss of life for which they are directly responsible.
I believe what Austin meant in his infinite lack of wisdom was that if Ukraine loses, Putin will be attacking NATO countries next, forcing ‘your children’ to fight the Russians, and die.
It’s just another scare-mongering hail mary pass from a sprained arm, in Congress’ final ‘cram week’. The final hope being: ‘to cram the crap into your cranial gap.’
They’ll prob. pass something, not that it’ll change much on the battlefront.
Yes, yes, they are total bunglers, and these people also can’t even manage a credible economic crisis as their financial ponzi erodes; it’s not under their control – it has got away from them and their chances of credibly finessing people into the digital gulag are as dim as their intelligence – all ambition and noise with no effect. The great wurlitzer can’t magic an economy of real production, but they seem to imagine they can.
I think you (and Bernard of Moon of Alabama, whom published a similar post on Dec. 5) are missing a crucial aspect of Ukraine’s failure when executing its counter-offensive: Corruption. This oversight causes both of ypu to arrive at the wrong conclusions with respect to NATO’s actual capacity (i.e. you under-estimate NATO).
Corruption has to be taken into account in every analysis of anything related to Ukraine. Corruption is corrosive, it destroys strength. No one here in the West can even imagine the degree of corruption in Ukraine. As Jean-Claude Juncker (former President of the EU Commission) said: “Anyone who has had anything to do with Ukraine knows that this is a country that is corrupt at all levels of society” (Augsburger Allgemeine, Oct. 5th., 2023).
So I think the Western plan of a single large force striking in the direction of Melitopol had a fair chance of success (even 50% is good enough in this case), or at least major disruption of Russian operating plans and a large number of Russian casualties.
But the Ukrainians split their force into three weakened fists, one directed to Melitopol, another to Berdiansk and a third one to Bakhmut, contradicting NATO plan to have one strong fist going into Melitopol.
Why?
Because the very substantial money and materiel accumulated for the counteroffensive have to reach the hands of three groups of corrupt Ukrainian military.
It was not ‘fair’ giving all the money and materials to the group of corrupt military leading the fist aimed at Melitopol. Other corrupt military groups ‘deservedly’ claimed access to a large a piece of the treasure.
So Ukranian corruption detroyed the Western plan to reach the Sea of Azov, weakening the fist directed to Melitopol, in order to balance the delivery of corruption opportunities inside the Ukrainian military establishment.
The West sees this war as an opportunity to weaken Russia while Ukraine their proxy sees this war as an opportunity to grab Western treasure.
Regarding computer simulations (aka war games) the only manner in which they may work reliably is by having the enemy designing a version of the games. Then having your side design the same games. And then average out both results.
Corruption destroyed Ukraine long before the war. Look who owns all the arable land in Ukraine. tip . It aint Ukrainians. The best land is owned by Luxembourg/Belgium/Netherlands and Saudi Arabia.
Having said that. I think you are doing the Russians a disservice. They created an impregnable line and held it.
Meanwhile the best pathway for Ukrainians to get their land back is via a Russian victory.
“Having said that. I think you are doing the Russians a disservice. They created an impregnable line and held it.”
The test of Surovikin line was executed with a weakened fist. The real test of its strength would’ve been with the full force, but the Ukrainians decided to split it, so we’d never know.
Host is correct though that the blame game has started. And yet blame has to be assigned in order to understand all the reasons for this failure. The blame lies fully on the Ukrainian side. West did all it could short of sending troops. But corrupt Ukrainians screwed up a good chance to weaken the Russian lines by threatening the land connection to Crimea. After such gross Ukrainian failure, they deserve to be left to their own devices, see how much they last without Western treasure.
“Meanwhile the best pathway for Ukrainians to get their land back is via a Russian victory.”
Agreed.
unlikely that a massive attack would have had a chance; the “weakended fist” didn;t get beyond the engagement zone. the massive attack might have made it to the second line, but that’s about it.
Agreed. And that would have been significant in terms of Russian losses in men and equipment. Instead, Ukrainian corruption led to a ridiculous defeat in the engagement zone, with minimal Russian losses.
I agree, a single point of attack would fail too because Russia has the airpower advantage. The Russians see any logistics buildup or major units massing near the front and blast them with bombs, artillery and even attack helicopters before they can even start an attack. Air Defense is limited since attack helos stay low and pop up to fire from several kilometers away, while aircraft can launch glide bombs from high above. These are GPS guided bombs with small pop out wings, so rather than fall straight down, they can be released from miles away and glide forward to hit the enemy.
So, a full point force effort might have penetrated the Surovikin line? Then what? The AFU surrounded on three sides including the sea’s marine assets and pounded incessantly? That sounds like a classic boiler to me.
Of course, Miley might have been right and breaking the line would have sent the Russians scurrying away in panic. Anything’s possible. And then again, I might win the megalottery this month too.
Put in the simplest of terms: You just don’t understand the Russians. Tenacity is ingrained in their genome.
“You just don’t understand the Russians.”
Lol! It’s funny you say that.
Why, because you lived under the Soviets for a while?
This has nothing to do with understanding Russians. Even Romanians would be able to hold Surovikin line (WWII Romanians, I’m not sure about modern day ones 🙂 ).
I don’t think a single combined force attacking the Russian defensive lines would’ve worked. The Russians would have released hundreds of precision guided missiles at the oncoming attackers. The Russians would’ve seen this large attack force building and bombed the crap out of it before it even got started.
Ukraine has no air Force and limited air defense capabilities.
Agreed Bob… the Russians did all they needed to do to kill off the “weaken”, split offence. If the Ukrainians had of put all their eggs into the Sorovikin defense. The Russians would have released even more bombs and they would have died too. NO amount of forces on foot and track could have broken that defence! The Russians could have killed all 6 Billion people on earth coming through that line on foot. The only hope that Ukraine did not have was air power to weaken the line. You can’t run your head into a wall and break it. You have to weaken the wall to the point it can’t not withstand the force of your head.
I think they likely had many dozens of TOS at the ready, in case of a serious breach.
It seems to me, the AFU would have found themselves walking a very deadly gauntlet.
The Ukrainians thank you for your Monday morning quarterbacking, Johan.
They’d probably have more respect if you had been in the frontlines with them.
>>Meanwhile the best pathway for Ukrainians to get their land back is via a Russian victory.
Yep. If “Ukraine” were to win the war their land would end up owned by Blackrock etc. with the Ukrainians reduced to the status of serfs. They’re much more likely to get a fair deal from Russia, even after all that’s happened.
Yep, Blackrock, Monsanto, etc., are all chomping at the bit to trample Ukraine when the smoke clears, then go on a land looting spree and stake claims on whatever soil they can get, and the population will be too traumatized for a generation to do anything about it. Hopefully Russia routs them all and sends them running like scalded dogs back to their Swampite paymasters.
Fewer people to feed and more foodstuffs to export. It’s a brutal calculus.
Monsanto is Bayer and it looks to be a very sick bunny. Monsanto bought politicians and Bayer forgot to keep paying them so now it faces break up
As for Fink he is irrelevant in Ukraine and if US does not withdraw Black Rock might see its portfolio eviscerated
Somebody needs to wrest that land away from the Netherlands, they have supreme farmland of their own and they are wrecking it to keep globalists happy, and they will do the same to Ukraine. They have no respect for farmers, farming, nor farm land except another get rich quick scheme and Ukraine has suffered enough.
Actually, you overlook the massive corruption in the US, which outdoes Ukraine by billions, if not trillions, of dollars. This war, nor the 2014 coup, would have happened at all without this overriding US/NATO grift and graft.
” The Russians are spreading that information in order to mislead the Ukrainians and their NATO allies. It is being fed to the Western intelligence agencies and they are lapping it up without looking for corroborating information.”
I doubt that Russia is seeding “Russian Incompetence” to her enemies. But I do believe Russia is happy to stand back and watch the Western Fools believe their own B.S. and step voluntarily into the Russian Slaughterhouse.
Air Power ? Does anyone seriously think the U.S. wants it’s most profitable (private profits) industry (military airplanes) destroyed in the air over Ukraine by superior Russian countermeasures? The F16? Sure, buddy. They would never send the F35 into Ukraine to be splattered into scrap.
Corruption? That is precisely the hand-in-glove fit of the U.S. and Ukraine. The one thing they have in common. Both are corrupt to the core. Both are skimming. And right out in the open, defying honest people. “So wadda ya gonna do about it, punk?”
Europe and the U.S. MIC have now displayed that they are only capable of attacking second-rate militaries. Both are hidebound obese stultified Bureaucracies. Both could finance modern Militaries with half their budgets, but they would have to fire their buddies and themselves.
“local American politics are corrupt to the core …
… and it gets worse and worse the higher you go up”
said a Berkley Political Science Professor in the fifties …
The Ukraine can learn a thing or two there …
I smiled when you mentioned USAF F-35 inside of Ukraine… 🙂
Corruption is a good point, though it’s the Washington Times leaving it out, not Larry. My country is on par with Ukraine’s criminals so I have sympathy. The bigger our problems, the worse the State reacts because it’s a bigger opportunity to steal and mismanage.
Your country is not on par with Ukraine with respect to corruption, very far from it. Your comment and Blue Dotterel’s above just show that unlike Jean Claude Juncker and anyone that have tried to do business in Ukraine, you have not dealt with Ukrainians. There is nothing worse than former commies switching to ‘anything goes’. Russia passed that phase and grew out of it thanks to great leadership but Ukraine has had over 30 years of ‘anything goes’, leading to the current debacle.
I am not American, and live in Turkiye. If you think the Pentagon, the MIC, Big Pharma, Big Ag, and the regulatory institutions that assist them, not to mention the congress and senate, are not massively corrupt to the amount of trillions, even compared to Ukraine, then you really have no idea of what corruption is.
Oh, and then there is the Biden crime family. Zelensky and the boys are amateurs by comparison.
Your argument is disingenouus. Corruption in the West and the USA is quantitatively larger (trillions you say) than corruption in Ukraine due to sheer size of Western economies. It’s like saying there is more crime in Russia compared to Switzerland. Well, yeah, duh, Russia has 150 million people and Switzerland has 9 million people. Corruption in Ukraine is smaller quantitatively due to the small size of their economy but it is much deeper qualitatively, affecting all levels of society, including and especially the military. Anyone not counting the impact of corruption on Ukrainian military failures is missing if not the most one of the mot important explanatory factors. In particular, it explains why the Ukrainians split their force in the execution of their 2023 counteroffensive.
yes, johan is delusional. He seems to forget the connections of the dis united states and the 404.
404 was the PERFECT staging ground for the utmost of corrupt – the u.s. political factions. That is proven by the complete selling out by both the major party political families – biden, obama, kerry, pelosi, romney, schumer, clintons (sbf) etc, etc. Those permathieves saw a fertile ground to lay their corrupt ways, and the corrupt 404 ate it up with a spoon. Those bioweapons facilities didn’t spring up from the 404 corruption – they had plenty of red, white and blue help.
404 would be a weak gang without the drooling u.s. political elites – the same failing corrupt elites that Larry addresses in these posts.
Give it up already, johan – the u.s. is worse – much, much worse!
Wow. You clearly do not understand Washington, DC.
1. The U.S. President has as a past of shaking down other countries for money. Extortion and bribes are their currency.
2. But the Biden Crime Family is but one of thousands, perhaps just shy of millions of useless parasites feeding off seemingly endless tax dollars, but more importantly endless (so far) debt. That is the aggregate Crime.
3. The appearances can be deceiving. The U.S. Media, Internet, and Movie/TV Culture provides the Smokescreen of Uncle Sam the Good, while Uncle Joe pillages and rapes throughout the nation and the world. Ask American Citizen protests from January the 6th, what the difference is between Rohm’s Brownshirts and American policing and justice today.
Motherhood and Apple Pie have been replaced by Industrial Abortion and Pfizer injections.
“Corruption has to be taken into account in every analysis of anything related to Ukraine”
True. The corruption *in the US* is piled so high & so deep, failure is not an option, it is guaranteed.
Everyone is on the take at this point, & everything is a corrupted mess.
Only size slows the appearance of complete collapse. The people caught at the bottom will soon be diamonds.
I disagree. It is a sign of low intelligence when you attack even though it is clear that you will not succeed.
The Ukrainian society knows quite well about corruption. They see this every day.
When zalushny is surprised by corruption, he is lying. He knows quite well what it means.
Furthermore: Corruption means that you pay for not going to the front. That you sell weapons you got as support. But not that you have no strategy.
“It is a sign of low intelligence when you attack even though it is clear that you will not succeed.”
You are assuming that the Ukrainian’s leadership (both political and military) principal objective is to win the war. But it is not. The Ukrainian’s leadership principal objective is to grab Western treasure.
“Corruption means that you pay for not going to the front.”
In present day Ukraine military corruption is based on sending fanatics, all sorts of losers, and the unlucky to the front for Western money (that’s why Zelensky took Blinken to a tour of Ukrainian cemeteries). That’s their business model. It’s a hit and run bussines model, very unsustainable and very profitable.
Ah, so it’s just been another plot twist on ‘The Mouse that Roared’, although Ukraine’s no mouse territory wise.
It all fits, from 2013 on.
How fast the billions are gone was shown to the Russians when the USA seized their accounts. Zelinski will not survive long time, no matter how much money he has. He has too many enemies.
That’s small potatoes corruption. Think about how all those billions the west has sent Ukraine and then think about the heyday of Las Vegas casinos run by the mob and taking a daily skim from the proceeds in the back rooms.
Think about how Kolomoisky made off with IMF millions if not billions, with fake offshore invoicing for goods never delivered to UA, about how Resnikov supplied $1 lielbasa to the AFU for $3, think about how Yatsenyuk ‘spent’ millions to build a 50 mile chicken wire fence on the UA/RU border, on and on and on. Then everyone’s palms greased in between. And don’t think for a minute the US doesn’t know about it. They engage in it themselves. But what the UA field commanders do with their troops is beyond the pale, stuffing pay for the deceased in their own pockets. That’s beyond pure evil.
UA corruption is institutional. It’s their version of ‘trickle down economics’. The EU is welcome to them. It’ll sink the EU.
“So Ukranian corruption detroyed the Western plan to reach the Sea of Azov, …”
This suggests that, without corruption, the plan would work. Why would anyone think that? Because of simulations?
No. The West had a good chance if Ukraine had concentrated all new forces for the counteroffensive in the direction of Melitopol as NATO wanted (50% according to Western intel, over-estimated IMO) but even without Ukrainian corruption, I think the plan to cut the Crimean land connection to Russia in the Ukrainian counteroffensive would have failed, just not in the ridiculous manner that it failed, not even passing the first line around Robotyne, and with a lot more Russian casualties and equipment losses.
No. The West had a good chance if Ukraine had concentrated all new forces for the counteroffensive in the direction of Melitopol as NATO wanted (50% according to Western intel, over-estimated IMO)
sorry, wishful thinking.
the flaws of Western militaries would have caused a failure regardless of the strategy chosen
“the flaws of Western militaries would have caused a failure regardless of the strategy chosen”
Under-estimating the enemy or adversary is a classical error o arrogance and hubris. You as a commenter in a blog may go with that according to your simpathies. The Russians and others have a better understanding.
“The West had a good chance if Ukraine had concentrated all new forces for the counteroffensive in the direction of Melitopol …”
On what exactly is that claim based? How is the “goodness” of chance calculated? A crystal ball? They got those 50% (or whatever) out of their BS tabletop games.
You can’t hide troops in modern battlefield. Larger groupings are easier targets than spreadout troops. Concentrated troops are missile magnets.
I’m not saying that I know the exact numbers, but maybe putting more troops in one spot would make them even an easier target for Russians. They don’t fire Iskanders at small groups at all. When they fire a Grad salvo, most of rockets hit nothing but empty field. If there were more troops in the target area, they would get more bang for the same buck.
The Tokmak-Melitopol-Berdyansk direction was by far the most fortified one. NATO plan was to slam head at the thickest wall (someone else’s head, that is), like it’s WWI again.
Even if some troops managed to break trough, they would end up in self inflicted encirclement, like in Debaltesevo many years ago, but without Merkel to save their asses.
Johan, you keep saying “if”… But you’re wrong. Russia only use the amount of force needed to kill what came towards their line. Ukraine+NATO+China and every country in the World could have not broken that defense on FOOT! Russia blew them out of their tanks before they could even see the LINE. They ran, on foot until they were tired and Russia killed them. It like saying, ants can kill an aardvark. The ONLY hope Ukraine had was to destroy the defence line before they sent in troops on tanks. The only way to do that is air power.
You know what they say with military simulations…garbage in, garbage out.
And who destroyed the US plan to democratize Afghanistan? The corrupt leaders that the US chose or the drug traffickers from the CIA and the US Forces? The UKR is a failed state and a lost cause for long. The natural riches of the second richest Socialist Republic after Russia, cursed both the UKR and the RUS and were both completely hijacked and drained by thug oligarchs. That destroyed everything good it inherited from the USSR, including cutting-edge industries such as military and space, and only created corruption and illegal trafficking in everything imaginable. Including children.
The UKR will never be able to join the EU or NATO and it should have been realized a long time ago that only Russia could save the UKR. Which only experienced impoverishment after the USSR. In fact, few former Socialist Republics live better today and this applies to the Baltics who also don’t stop barking. Even the corrupt Ukrainian nationalists Yushchenko and Tymoshenko, after the first overthrow of Yanukovych in the Orange Revolution in 2004, crawled to Moscow for help when the economy collapsed. The entry of the former Warsaw Pact countries into the EU was an imposition of the US already to cut off Russia from the EU but a backward country the size of the UKR would the immediate ruin of the EU. And member states will never agree to share funds with the UKR. All propaganda.
And if the EU needs Russia, imagine UKR. Russia is a huge market for the UKR and as soon as Moscow abolished free trade, without taxes, the UKR would fall into an even bigger hole than simple bankruptcy, which it has known for many years. The UKR has been a US state since the coup and not just since Feb 2022. But in past UKR made a lot of money from Russian pipelines and the Sevastopol lease but this Kiev regime threw everything in the trash after the coup. And will end up as a nations as US puppet state. Of course, corruption interferes with the proxy war. Corruption in UKR interferes with everything. UKR has been synonymous with corruption for many years.
That being said, Larry is absolutely right. You can’t form an Army in a year or with all the money in the world, with a weapons system from each nation and without logistics. And the RAF, with half the men, destroyed the most capable soldiers in the first year. And most of the Soviet armor of many former Socialist Republics. One year is not enough for a Ukrainian tanker to master a new Western tank. Much less conscripts picked up on the street. That’s why we know that all Kiev’s numbers are just BS. And you see the desperation and cowardice of the US in Milley’s statement that he only wanted to impose a defeat on the RAF, but was completely humiliated. And I even had consideration for Milley when he advised stopping the fighting and negotiating a year ago.
All good Paulo, agree on everything, but this:
“That being said, Larry is absolutely right. You can’t form an Army in a year or with all the money in the world, with a weapons system from each nation and without logistics”
Yes, but the West did not intend to defeat Russia in Ukraine, they know that’s impossible, they just wanted to WEAKEN Russia, and the counteroffensive was supposed to weaken Russia significantly, and instead, it ended ridiculously in the zone of engagement because of Ukrainian overwhelming corruption, with negligible Russian losses.
In a very real sense these agitated partners, the West and Ukrainian leadership, do not share the same objectives. The West want Ukraine to go to war against a far superior foe and be destroyed to achieve the weakening of Russia. Ukrainian leadership on the other hand want to grab more and more Western treasure until such time when they are ready to do an Ashraf Ghani.
Hi Johan,
Firstly, the US never thinks in terms of Russia but in terms of Putin. The war was provoked to overthrow Putin. As far as Russia is concerned because this war was also against the EU economy. And it was not with the war that they wanted to weaken Russia but with the economic sanctions that failed. And war with war propaganda without the effectiveness of economic sanctions would never achieve the US objectives, which was to overthrow Putin. In the 1st phase, the objective of the war was even more limited, it was just to kill as many Russians as possible to create hysteria in Russian society and generate protests. Don’t think that the US doesn’t have resources in Russia to fuel the protests. And I don’t want to talk about the Prigozhin mutiny now. The problem is that the RAF, with half the men, won every battle until the counteroffensive.
Before the withdrawal from Kharkov, the RAF had crushed the AFU in Kherson. With artillery in improvised defense lines. After the great battles in Svero. The AFU, even with the best men at the beginning of the war, did not prove that it could defeat the RAF or cause them a huge number of KIAs. And despite agreeing that corruption influences the war as it influences everything in the UKR, Johan also makes the mistake of devaluing the RAF’s know-how in land warfare. As I said, even the lack of UKR jets in the counteroffensive is a myth. The UKR had jets but the RAF had the MIG-31s in the air, which shoot down any flying shit hundreds of miles away and the integrated AD systems on the ground. I say again that the best UKR Forces never showed the ability to defeat the RAF on the battlefield. Much less overcome well-implemented in-depth defense lines. And there is little talk about tens of thousands of NATO-trained mercenaries, used to fighting with NATO forces, throughout the entire conflict in the UKR. And I saw many abandon the conflict during the hell of the counteroffensive. Which took place over 4 or 5 months and not over 4 or 5 days, where everything was tried but Johan still doesn’t accept the result and the disaster of the AFU. Ok.
The extrapolation that Johan can make is whether the US Forces were capable of overcoming Russian defense lines in the counteroffensive. Which was basically only designed to try to humiliate Putin after more than 1 year of war, which had already destroyed the UKR. And although I think an escalation is impossible due to the obvious risks on the Russian border, I don’t believe it. And I don’t believe it because the US Forces have never done it in the last 50 years. What training or test have the US Forces given today that can overcome the defense lines in Zaporizhia? When did they do something like that? Never. Probably not even in war games and I heard several Marines comment on the RAF counteroffensive and defense lines as impenetrable. Every maneuver of the US Forces on the ground depends on the destruction caused by the Air Force in the air. The US Forces infantry and even the US special troops never faced the Zaporizhia minefields with several lines of defense in depth and several killing fields. And the VVS and VKS did not sit idly by and look at the USAF jets. A battle therefore completely impossible. Happily.
P.S. A battlefield on the Russian border, with all the logistics behind it. Why do we forget that the greatest Armies have tried this throughout history? By preconception? Bias? Russophobia? Did Johan see the response from the Russian MIC? The entire NATO operation in Europe throughout the 50 years of Cold War was solely designed to delay an eventual attack by Moscow. And anyone who says otherwise lies. But we still continue to think in a very amateurish way in the 21st century that Russia is just any nation and that its Armed Forces on its Continent is some shit?! They are not! And only the nukes today prevents us from confirming what history has already seen several times.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/strong-military
I just wanted to add: never be fooled by the slowness of SMO. Just look at the limited number of Russian troops at the front even today. In a war that is much more economic and even moral than a true war of attrition. Which reaps fruit all over the world, unlike Israel and US in Midle East. If Russia wanted to, it would also level the UKR. And the US didn’t lose the war on the battlefield but when they stole Russian reserves.
The AFU never got beyond the first line of defense in the counter-offensive. The first line. But its more complicated to fight a proxy war and a puppet regime than an entire nation on border. That’s why I also believe that Russia was very clumsy in allowing the coup on its border. On the other hand, its taking the opportunity to modernize the RAF in a completely new war that no Army has ever fought.
And nothing could be more illustrative of West’s impotence than Milley’s disgusting statement, which dignifies no soldier. UKR should have negotiated before hostilities or at least after losing the 1st army. After it’s all hate and insanity without any strategy that will result in the end of the UKR that started the war. Kiev is responsible for every kilometer of land it will lose. And you will lose many.
You are correct about Ukraine corruption.
But what you completely fail to grasp is that the corruption in the “west” makes Ukraine look like an amateur.
Commenters AP and JTMcphee make comments in this section that are homing in on the real situation.
As to NATO- Russia is crushing NATO in Ukraine and is perfectly capable of crushing anything NATO can throw at it.
America and NATO are empty suits.
The end in Ukraine is a foregone conclusion.
The big game is ahead.
The west is going down- not by external forces- but by implosion from within.
2024 will be when things begin to truly spiral out of control.
Events of 2024 will be referenced 1000 years from now.
Watch Tucker interview Alex Jones- 2024 will change everything.
And they miss a bunch- especially BRICS.
“America and NATO are empty suits.”
That kind of thinking prevailed in the West when they challenged Russia by planting their men in the Ukrainian State. Now consider the results. The West is facing a complete defeat.
Never underestimate your enemy or adversary. You may over-estimate it but never under-estimate it.
The West is declining but still is the second strongest military and economic force and the indisputable strongest ideological force in the world. It will remain in that category for a very long time, although the rate of decline may accelerate sharply in the next few years.
“el plan occidental de una sola gran fuerza atacando en dirección a Melitopol tenía bastantes posibilidades de éxito”. El problema es que en la guerra del S.XXI, en donde el campo de batalla es un cristal transparente para ambos contendientes, como consecuencia de los medios técnicos de reconocimiento, concentrar fuerzas masivas en un punto es imposible. No puedes esconderlas del enemigo y este las destruiría antes de ponerse en marcha con las armas de precisión y larga distancia, sea desde tierra o desde el aire.
It was obvious that the “Counter Offensive” was going to be a disaster. Without air cover, artillery superiority, in the face of huge minefields, with the use of scatterable mines and more and more drones it was just a slaughter.
You also don’t tell your opponent months in advance about your attacks.
I’m just a social media geek with no military experience. How come this was obvious to me, and lots of other people including Larry, MoA, Martyanov, as well as immense number of bloggers, but not professional military planners? The first poster is right, they should be fired, although I think they should be shot in a world where there was justice, “pour encourager les autres.”
I forget when the US announced it would supply cluster munitions. Towards the latter part of the counteroffensive?
Ru just started its response, with far more massive cluster bombs than 155s it has stocked to the ceilings, still used sparingly. What would that effect have had on a concentrated force as Milley wished? Not on tanks but on the infantry behind them. How much Ru air power would have been used and how much impeded by a Milley breakthrough?
I still can’t get my head around the assumption by the West that Ukraine could win a war against Russia. If Russia had been weaker or were run by a weak leadership, it would simply have reduced Ukraine to rubble, like Eltsin did with Chechnya the first time. The way Russia led war from day one is inductive of strength and confidence, not weakness or despondency.
For 20 years Russia dismantled its Battlegroup- West because it thought Europe hospitable.
It shrank its armies to BTGs and lost capability
Even Surovikin‘s defence lines required the master planner to come out of retirement
Russians appreciate some of the foundations the USSR left them to build on
Paul.
While the USSR may have left some foundations to build on, Russia, long before the Bolsheviks, had a history of defending their lands in their West. And for all the Hollywood caricatures of the dull Russian, Russian leaders had and have endless reserves of intelligence.
The T34 tank suspension and sloping armor were the ideas of an American, rejected by the dull but yappy U.S. military, but quickly absorbed by Russia.
And Von Bron, the German, the foundation of American Rocket technology, had many German and Russian equivalents in Russia.
Russia, if nothing else is Practical, not Emotional.
Werner von Braun was part of a team some of whom the US captured in Nordhausen before Thuringia was turned over to Red Army
Just like Carl Zeiss US military had its list and carted off those it wanted
My point was that USSR built the industrial base they had a huge tank factory in Kharkov and incredible productive capacity even after moving those factories to the Urals
No other power had to dismantle and move its factories in face of enemy and Soviet defence research was institutionalised
Putin rebuilt he did not start from zero
“After reading this report I now understand why Ukraine and the West routinely are disparaging the Russian forces as inept, poorly led and bereft of morale — I believe it is a Russian disinformation campaign. The Russians are spreading that information in order to mislead the Ukrainians and their NATO allies. It is being fed to the Western intelligence agencies and they are lapping it up without looking for corroborating information.”
Perfect textbook, Sun Tsu, by Russian strategic planning. The western stupidity boggles the mind.
The Corollary of Never Interrupt your Enemy when he is making a mistake.
“Never Correct Your Enemy When He is Laughing at You and Underestimating You.”
After all. The Russian Punchline to a Military Joke is a Bullet in the Head.
Notice, If I’m not mistaken, that Ru is refraining from finally taking out Ukraine’s electric grid. I assume they could hit the main transformers at any time but haven’t. I can only guess that the cost/benefit doesn’t compare to just doing what they’re doing. Civilians dying of hypothermia would only be of benefit to Ukraine and its wonderfully humanitarian allies, after all.
That’s one of the differences between a war and SMO.
Russia is just degrading them to the point where the EU has to share their capacity with the Ukrainians. Remember how Zelensky was BS’ing everyone that Ukraine would be selling some of it’s capacity to the EU? How super duper it will be to have Ukraine enlighten the EU once they join? Most people new that Ukraine will end up being dependent on others supporting them on any level. A utterly crippled Ukraine will be a huge burden for the EU. Corruption will be only one issue. Russia is making the EU pay dearly for their warmongering.
After the sanctions have backfired and almost everything else went the other way around, now the EU is also paying to keep Ukraine on life-support. The EU has screwed itself big time 🙂 This will only mean more borrowing, more interest payments, more inflation and therefore a much, much poorer EU.
The bubble-heads in the EU should have better kept their big mouth shut about supporting Ukraine to the end. They thought the end will be “victory” and now they cannot get out looking like total idiots. It’s win-win for Russia now.
“I still can’t get my head around the assumption by the West that Ukraine could win a war against Russia.”
They didn’t make that assumption. They said their military purpose is to weaken Russia. That part of their statements was sincere. No one is stupid enough (except some Ukrainian fanatics) to believe that Ukraine can win a war against Russia, no matter how much help from they receive from USA+groupies.
What they really believed was that they could severely harm the Russian economy. They hoped that would lead to some kind Russian meltdown in the battlefield. But the results were not as expected. Russia has become economically stronger and continues to be an attractive region for investment and even to play in the currency markets, if you can pass the walls set up by Western governments.
It is not simply density of minefields but fact they can be planted by artillery even as enemy advances. They also have above ground mines with acoustic sensors for tanks
Land warfare is a Russian speciality of a quality unknown to Americans and Britons and long forgotten by Germans
If
“No army in the world can breach fortified defensive positions without air power…and yet that is precisely what the U.S. demanded the Ukrainians do,”
then the question becomes:
Why was Ukraine urged , and then literally forced by the United States to do precisely that?
In short, there are two possible answers:
1) sheer allround incompetence, or
2) the whole Ukraine conflict was a set-up from day one.
If we consider the possibility of 2) being the case, the real questions becomes:
In heaven`s name, WHY?
Depopulation.
Perhaps it is just as important to the Western ruling clique to weaken Ukraine as it is to weaken Russia. It is not in the interests of Western investors/owners for Ukraine ever to be strong enough to resist their demands or interfere with their property rights.
This.
A continuation of the 1992-2000 land-grab by UKUS of the former USSR. Wipe out the population, leaving some of the world’s best farmland and oil fields up for grabs, all the while poking Russia in the eye and degrading its military.
As Larry says, it is beyond belief that senior military planners would be so inept as to not include air superiority. And the outcome was predictable all along. Therefore, they did include it, and did predict the outcome. The result is as intended.
Larry’s implicit assumption is that the US was playing to win. What if the US were playing to lose or draw? They would send small batches of old, random tanks, too little, too late. They would not send any support aircraft nor ships. They would stall, stall, stall. They would rent the equipment, not give it, at shiny new prices while sending antique junk, and then trouser the difference.
They would drive Ukraine’s economy into the ground, then make it pledge its farmland and mines as collateral, to be repossessed when the known insolvent Ukraine economy eventually collapsed.
America lied its ass off about the WMD, and then sent Colin Powell to the U.N. as the useful front-man to play the rest of the world. Think about this. The people pulling the strings were more powerful than Colin Powell, who did as he was led to do / told.
Colin Powell was a giant compared to the front men we have leading the Defense department.
Do you think you can become a 4*General (Austin is)(Milley too, of course) and not understand air support? Milley was Airborne infantry, for heaven’s sake.
I believe these guys are lying, and stalling, as front men for what they believe is the plan for the good of their country. Just like their predecessors did for Iraq. And the long-term stalemate with a quagmired Russia was intended from the beginning.
which still leaves unexplained #2 what are most of the rest of the motives behind this.
Why ?
It’s the easy to answer question : because they needed 404 to have more PR wins after the Kharkov and Kherson RUAF retreat was presented as an AFU “great victory”. More PR “win” = more money, more money = more kickbacks. They didn’t even needed a real win, just to run the show to the last dollar in order to ask for more.
Unfortunately the RUAF were not ready to give Brandon any PR win this time , as they understood 404 was forced to “no peace : all in” after Kharkov forced retreat.
Brandon and Milley are now threatening to send “yo mama to the front-lines” if congress dare to not sign them another paycheck …But the Campaign donors mouthpiece some calls “Congress” seems unhappy about Brandon’s results in Banderastan. Did you knew Monsanto was the biggest farmlands owner in Zaporizhia oblast ?
404 is as lost as Brandon’s on a stage.
2) the whole Ukraine conflict was a set-up from day one.
If we consider the possibility of 2) being the case, the real questions becomes:
In heaven`s name, WHY?
The Ukraine war, on the Russian side, is being waged by masters of maskirovka, as Larry has now realized vis a vis the issue of Russian military competence and morale. On the western side, the maskirovka is thick as well, it’s just not as competent. The big success of American maskirovka is to convince the world that the current war in Ukraine is aimed at weakening Russia and eventually cutting it up into plunderable parts. While the US deep state operatives would certainly love it if that were to work, that goal is and was mere fantasy because the west didn’t have the means. It didn’t have the means because the whole financial system was teetering on the brink of collapse, and classic imperialist war was the only path to saving it. American capitalists had to have a new market, or destroy some competitors, or both- and in this they are succeeding bigly, because the EU was the actual target of the operation. Weakening Russia was a nice thought, but not the reason that the war was provoked when it was.
The near-term outcome of this is going to be that Europe ceases to be any kind of competitor to the US economically, and the restoration of American industrial capacity can be undertaken at a profit, on the backs of Europeans. The profit part was lacking before the war, as demonstrated by Trump’s failure to on-shore much of anything in the way of basic industry. The aftermath of this war will see more action toward a controllable supply chain for the US, both because the elites can profit off it by plundering European markets, and because creating a ‘war economy’ in a ‘war mentality’ will make Americans more pliable objects to be plundered as well. For awhile. It will all come crashing down, but every day that the elites avoid being hung from lamp posts is a day in which they can plot more tricks which may extend their lifespan further.
Donkey_shot
See my comment above. The U.S. Military Private Profit Center wouldn’t allow their “best in the world” air stuff get shot out of the sky by a peer (or better) military.
It is one thing for the Belligerent World Bully to kick sand in Saddam’s face, it is quite another to send Chris Christie into the ring with a calm, nerves-of-steel Vlad.
Well, make the fight over a box of doughnuts and I might have to put money on Christie. He coves all the aspects of a “fat cat politician.”
I would add that NATO’s troops with their 14 month training and air power wouldn’t be doing much better. As soon as they find out it’s not going to be easy, and when the bodies start piling up, they’d be demoralized even faster than the Ukrainians. The whole NATO facade is all belief not based on reality. The best thing that could happen would be for everybody to acknowledge reality – Russia has a superior military. It isn’t based on screwing the taxpayer over to the benefit of the military contractors, it’s based on cost effective, useful, reliable stuff. They’ve completely changed the nature of war, and made things like navies useless. America’s supposed strengths, are now weaknesses. And we keep trying to pretend it’s not true.
As Curley said “I can’t see, I can’t see.” Moe says “why not?” Curley responds “because my eyes are closed.” Yep, Biden, Austin and Milley, the three stooges. I can see Biden as Larry. Ideas on who’s who here?
Why they pushed Ukraine into the fight?! Because they didn’t rely on Ukraine to defeat Russia. The point was to force Russia into invading, to proclaim the action as terrible and, with it, to justify the economic sanctions – that no one survived so far – that will bring Russia to its knees. China may not have survived those sanctions (although they may have been able to bring their opponent down with them), so the main weapon was not the Ukrainian army but the western sanctions. Russia prepared however for 8 years for that specific attack. Whoever thinks that Russia managed to ride the sanctions in 2 months because it had “resources” doesn’t see how international relations are build – you have to have a buyer for your products. So, they patiently created a backup network that allowed them to survive. I don’t think that the Russians actually thought that the Europeans were going to run with the sanctions – too much to loose – but I guess they were proven wrong on that count. So, when the “sanctions war” failed, the western bloc were left with the army solution. Which is failing as well.
I basically agree with you, but the fact is that I recognized back when Trump trashed the Iran nuke deal that the US was at war with Europe, and far earlier than that the Chinese BRI and BRICS would make Russia and China highly resilient. I think the ‘pivot to Europe’ was the deep state acknowledging that Russia and China were already nuts too tough to crack. The EU leaders were suckered into supporting the Ukrainians not on the off chance that Putin would get tossed out of office, but on the basis of a long-term plan to plunder Europe to keep America on top. Of course the US doesn’t state any of this publicly, but if you look at the Iran deal, cancelling it dealt a heavy blow to the EU economy, especially France and Germany’s industrial and financial sectors. EU was forced to start printing free money a la the US to prevent the banks and German manufacturing from collapsing, which they had hoped to do with cheap Iranian oil, massive infrastructure projects in Iran, and a new market for consumer goods. This set them up for the current war- the sanctions destroyed their economies, while the obvious autarky of Russia was unfazed. All the elements of this have been available all along in the MSM.
The public acknowledgment of the deep cooperation between Russia and China is recent, as they have both been trying to fly under the western radar until they were ready, but all the signs of it have been there, and I don’t doubt that even the limited intelligences in Washington and Wall Street noticed them.
Trump’s plan was always “Fortress America” all the way down to Tierra Del Fuego, Biden may have acted prematurely because of his personal investment in the Ukraine project, but either way, this conflic benefits the US elites and introduces openly fascistic policies in both the US and Europe. It also buys the US time to rebuild some industry and resource extraction so it can hang in there while it tries to figure out how to recapture its global hegemony.
the US attack on nordstream clarified once and for all that the united states is effectively in an economic war with the european union. however, does this explain setting up ukraine itself for a fall? dunno…with it comes a very high risk of completely losing ukraine, so I guess the neocons figured it was worth it, if only for being able to take over europe in the wake of ukraine`s collapse.
it all sounds crazy on the face of it, but then again, these people provably have serious mental problems, so (as andrei martyanov would say) “there you go”.
In heaven`s name, WHY?
A neocon project (for the new American century), of course.
I think you’d have to consult hell not heaven on what makes a neocon’s mind work.
Ukraine had air power. Just look at what Ukraine had on Jan 2022 – it was better equipped than any military in Europe.
Even US did not have comparable forces in Europe
Ukraine simply lost it all
I choose Option 2. The answer is simple – the section of the World. Russia receives Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and, possibly, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan. The US gets the remaining western Europe.
So the World is divided into two clusters between which there is a permanent war that no one sees. Welcome to 1984!
One problem is that the US hasn’t really “lost” anything. Ukraine and the EU have lost big time. Until they lose their ability to spend an unlimited amount of everybody else’s money, all that’s happened as far the US is concerned is they’ve got possibly another million people killed (people they don’t give a shit about) and run up a huge bill which will be paid by everyone else rather than them. Depending on how things pan out they might even come out ahead – they have the EU on a short leash and maybe Blackrock etc. get to own part of former Ukraine when the dust settles. Their weapons have not performed terribly well but people still seem to be buying them – they have a lot of captive customers.
Exactly
Well, other than the $1-200 billion in borrowed/printed money being flushed down the toilet. When you run a trillion in the hole every few months, it gets to be a problem. It’s like the junkie – once an addict, always an addict, and take more until you kill yourself. Pumping cash you don’t have into the black hole of Ukraine is the US debt junkie taking another hit on the way to killing itself.
Russia also understands the economic part of this hybrid war. The biggest failing of those at the top in the US is they don’t understand it’s all connected and part of a bigger game. They took checkers to a chess match, and are still trying to figure out why the other guy has so many different pieces. Russia is playing a multi-faceted game while the US is using the old approach of focusing only on the obvious thing. PT Barnum was right. And a lot of those suckers seem to have landed in DC.
All nations should take care of issues within their own borders, their own unique cultures, languages, ethnic groups, etc., and relegate the unnatural globalist system to the trash.
Having their own centers of gravity stabilized will allow them to more effectively trade, lend assistance, and interact with other similar and dissimilar nations.
That means getting rid of the EU and NATO, and they should not mourn the monetary loss of such associations, for the affiliated nations were only given money that was ripped off from other people and given to those who complied with the rackets.
Nothing good comes of ill gotten gains, and every single thing in the possession of EU and NATO should be considered stolen property.
Trudeau, the Lesser, won his first election by canceling the F35 contract made by his opponent. Yet, now Trudeau the Eff-Up, just re-ordered F35’s to the tune of $17 billion.
Can’t have the F35 Flying Garbage Can with a Leaky Lid being shot out of Ukraine skies by those “dumb Russians.” Not good for Sales and Profits.
“After reading this report I now understand why Ukraine and the West routinely are disparaging the Russian forces as inept, poorly led and bereft of morale — I believe it is a Russian disinformation campaign.”
Yes! It has to be.
I read the print edition of the Guardian every day. It drives me nuts but I have to do it. The Russians must be laughing their heads off at what the Guardian is prepared to believe.
Agreed – and I’ve suspected from the beginning that Russia subverted the information gathering infrastructure and started feeding crap into it. To this day I still wonder about the SolarWinds hack and if this provided the route to do this. Buttressing this is the “news” the rabidly anti-Putin Russian diaspora read which I suspect feeds into this “Russia is a a trainwreck” narrative
Disagree. I vote CMI6A, which has occupied Ukraine since ages.
You have to do it, why? Masochism at work? Working on a PhD in the media and mass hypnosis as progenitor to mass psychosis?
I do it because I knew it would have to change its mind on a lot of things (Russia, disease, climate change) and I wanted to watch and gloat. It’s just starting to wriggle.
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After reading parts I & II, I put on my Cynical Hat.
Maybe Biden, Austin, and Milley ARE that dumb. But their masters are not.
Just like what happened to us in ‘Nam, it’s regular people fighting some rich people’s war. So…
Why would the rulers of any nation agree to be patsies for another country and agree to allow the future of their nation to be slaughtered? Perhaps we regular people are asking the wrong question. Perhaps we should be asking: Who are the Ukrainian Elite, and what was promised to them should Russia be defeated?
We should also ask why our American Elite wanted to cut their Ukie counterparts in on the deal. We all know the deal, it was clearly stated in Zbiggy’s ‘97 tome, “The Grand Chessboard”. My guess is that these elites, regardless of place of residence, are members of the same extended family.
Which brings us full-circle to THE question. Who are the American Elite?
The next question is: To whom or to what are the American Elite loyal?
The current war on the Eastern Shore of the Med with its attendant high emotions is giving this Elite the opportunity to vent their true hateful emotions. At least we now know them for what they are.
Good for us regular people. We have no need to employ the Elite as tax collectors and money managers in the non-hegemonic world we witness a-borning. Us regular people now know enough to avoid the mistakes of ancient potentates who made their deal with the devils to assure their dictatorship’s survival. ALL those ancient potentates are gone. Yet the devils are still with us, tormenting us.
We must not succumb to squeamishness and sophistry, to false moral equivalency arguments. If we remain true to ourselves, we will, at last, put an end to the Tyranny of the Elite.
Who are the American Elite? The military-industrial complex plus the intelligence services plus the secret societies. They have only one ambition: to kill all the ‘inferior’ people and mind-control the rest.
Here is an example. ‘God’ told Boris Johnson the purpose of Covid was to solve the social care problem (kill all the old people) and demonstrate the genius of British science (the Oxford vaccine). Neither really worked. So who was ‘God’? His mind-control handler. These people have no idea what they’re doing.
The “elite” aren’t a monolithic group, but rather a loose alliance of groups that don’t all have the same interests or goals. You’ve got the financial guys, the military, tech, WEF types, and so on. As long as they’re all moving ahead, they’ll stick together. You’re seeing some divergence now as the interests of the military and financial groups are seriously diverging.
The military needs the dollar strong because they want more stuff. The financial guys need more printing because it’s the only way to save them when the debt bubble pops. You can’t support a military with hyperinflation and lacking internal resources, as you have to buy critical resources outside the country.
The WEF types, and Gates, other tech guys, want to destroy the US and have a dystopian tech controlled society where they get all the benefits and the rest of us are effectively slaves as they rub us out. A couple of problems there, though, AI and other software systems can be easily shut down with low tech approaches, and, they can be hacked and reprogrammed with a minimal capital outlay, just talent needed. On top of that, they are at odds with the guys with the guns in the long term view. As Larry said in a previous post “my money’s on the guys with the guns.”
The “elite” isn’t a singular, unified group. That may or may not pan out for us.
Well actually, the elite is a unified group, unified by their belief in magic and their need for world domination if the magic is to work. The aliens in flying saucers say they won’t work with factions, the world must be united under a single leader. Which is the US, or at least that’s what the US thinks.
The aliens have a history of promising us their technology and not delivering it. Their job is to make fools of us, and they are very good at it.
They don’t believe in the “magic” they profess, not religious, not WEFism, nor “Inclusive Capitalism”.
They are as “unified” as any other street gang… just waiting to slit each other’s throats and step on their former gang-members’ bodies to climb to the top. Only to find they face another layer of banksters even more connected and formidable than than the last.
Think of it as a Conspiracy of Convenience.
They cooperate when it conveniently suits their purposes, connive behind each other’s backs and turn on each other when the situation seems in their favour.
We know who the current top predators are… the Rothschilds.
I think I could pull a dozen random dopeheads out of Philly’s Kensington, give them a bath, haircut and a new suit and plop them under Biden’s nose in the State Dept. and no one would notice, most of all Biden himself.
Best reply yet!
Funny how even well meaning US commentators cannot admit the US is brawn for British “brains”. Even polish aristocrat Brzezinski took the Chessboard from longstanding head of the British Arab Bureau Bernard Lewis.
When Bernard Lewis descended to one of Dante’s hells, Mike Pompeo (remember Trump’s goto guy) wrote :
“the world lost a true scholar and great man, Bernard Lewis, this past week…. I met him only once, but read much of what he wrote. I owe a great deal of my understanding of the Middle East to his work. Mr. Lewis was a hard-nosed defender of democracies around the world—including in the Middle East. He was also man who believed, as I do, that Americans must be more confident in the greatness of our country, not less.”
Pompeo took tea at the Royal In and Out Club, took orders from London’s Henry Jackson Society.
The Clash of Civilizations attributed to Huntington is from Kissinger’s mentor Bernard Lewis.
Henry Kissinger, was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander in the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG), said TWICE publicly he always served the British Crown, in FOUR US Administrations.
When Sir Henry went to China early on, he did not serve a US Admin as Pepe Escobar recently pointed out.
As Scott Ritter shows here “What to do with Zelensky who knows too much and wants too much”.
https://rumble.com/v34l28n-a-scott-ritter-investigation-agent-zelensky-part-2.html
Zelensky’s handler is MI6 chief Moore.
Now well known Boris Johnson sabotaged the Istanbul Russia-Ukraine peace deal in Mar. 22.
Who’s wars are these? Wars need meat.
Thanks, details we all need to add to our understanding of this “tangled web they weave”.
Everyone on the US/Ukraine side believed their own biases and propaganda about Russian inferiority and the great Ukrainian victories in the battles of Kiev and Kherson. Fail to prepare and prepare to fail.
First of all mr.Johnson I appreciate that you find the time and the energy to write these qualitity comments/analyses in view of your travel to Moscou v.v. I hope you had an enjoyable time an returned safely. No need for an escord of SU-35’s :).
Secondly I want to express my happiness about the stupidity/hubris etc. of the American elite as you highlighted. The rest of the non-western world will certainly agree with you and will make it easier for them to follow their own path.
As a Dutch citizen I am of the type: “Yankee go home”. You did your job 78 years ago, thank you for that.
Lastly, it is my wish that those stupid people continue to do so…
I don’t see how taking about “russian human waves” helps Ukrane/NATO???
That would scare the shit out of me. Basically white Jihadis who won’t stop no matter how many you kill. They like dying more than you like living.
Help me understand?
It’s the excuse original Nazis came up with, when they had to explaine losing a war to lesser-humans. Blaming it on the rain is not enough. Not much has changed.
The NYT and the WaPo have two useful functions – birdcage liner and cat box.
I have half a mind to report you to the ASPCA, for cruelty to animals.
LOL!
Or maybe it’s an intentional ethnic cleansing of Slavs with Russian collusion – that would indeed please nato war planners and their U.S. overlords. That’s what I’ve concluded at this point, so weird almost nobody else has. A comic jew orders over 1.25 million Christian Orthodox Slavs into a certain death and still remains in power. Meanwhile, the ashke(nazi) zios in “israel” must surely desire a more peaceful place to declare a nation, why not where they came from?
I have… see my comment 😊
Many have been saying it, for a while. This particular NATO-Crusade and Slavic genocide started in Yugoslavia (part of which is called Krajina, not conicidentally). It took a while to get fully going.
What if this war is doing exactly what it is supposed to do – reduce the human population, get rid of outdated military equipment, and provide kickbacks?
Look at the leaders from the west who personally visit Ukraine. To talk or get their Swiss bank account filled up?
Oh and teach the Russians not to get in the way of greedy oligarchs.
If the above are the goals then the Ukraine is 100% winning.
I’m skeptical that there is any real intent to win this war. Like a corporation that makes money on sick people helping you be healthy? Right, I’ll pass…
You never know lol. Billionaires didnt get to a billion without being 100% sociopaths. Its never enough $ for them and any means to get it to include killing 100s of thousands peasants and walking up to nuclear war.
all this, and get oil-fields for pennies on the dollar after no one lives there. This was part of the plan for the Donbas; see the history of Burisma, how it was created.
And provide a fertile, resource-laden country cleared of adult males and fighting women for the latest “migration” of the “oppressed Jew” pawns now running away from being blamed for the Zionist genocide in Israel. Think “send them back where they came from”… Eastern Europe.
Russia would NEVER attack such a pitiful pile of “refugees”. Holocaust Part Deux, eh?
Clever, no?
Western military advisors and analysts knew from before Day One (when they had talked up a Russian tactical withdrawal as a great Ukrainian victory in a battle that never actually occurred) that this war could not be won if it had to be engaged. It could only be won if the Russians ran away.
Thus began the great campaign of words, bigging up Ukraine and that fabled allied weaponry with endless reels of firing leopard 2s, talking up the big spring counter offensive in lurid terms even to the extent of telling the Russians where the great storm would be coming from. The object was one of ‘visualisation’ to build anxiety to an unbearable degree. The Russian troops had to be able to form in their own minds an image so frightening that at the first sign of its ghostly manifestation in the Real, they would just take flight.
Here was western imperial pride all swollen up just before it face planted in the ‘Real’ of the truly fabulous, ‘really’ terrifying Russian Front.
Ukraine always thought NATO would step in directly if push came to…..
Well, we now have Biden threatening to throw Americans on the fire if the DOP does not back down and approve the funds to save Biden’s face. I hope he is never allowed to ‘forget’ he said that, that he put a gun to the head of the firstborns to save his own sorry political skin.
Nice.
I trust he will be sending Hunter to the front forthwith, as a sign of good faith.
I trust he will be sending Hunter to the front forthwith, as a sign of good faith.
Could be the only ‘get out of jail free’ card Hunter has left.
you forget that hewas already discharged. but why hasnt the great patriot Vindman volunteered?(dishonorably discharged)
Only in Chess results and WaPo could you call Stalemate a draw, for anyone else it is absolute one-sided carnage.
Typically Chess stalemate only happens when one player completely anihilates the other, removes all his pieces and pawns from the game but forgets to check the king.
The army is slaughtered but the king can’t move so the game is ended artificially early.
Pretty much perfectly describes Ukraine and Zelensky (or Biden or Nato or Milley)
But their pieces and pawns are all dead.
The WaPo calls it a draw because the whole thing really is a perverted table game to them. They go into conference rooms and look at screens with map details and daily moving lines ( because they have no general knowledge of the plundered landscape outside of news reports, which are reliably unreliable), or arts and crafts people create 3D towns and regions to be conquered, destroyed, bypassed, etc., spread out artistically on the table whilst the conference attendees imbibe the finest imported coffee, or maybe something stronger, or they discuss money graphs and how much more tax money should be ripped off for their Ukrainian Thunderdome project, and all the while dining on the finest of food, offered to them with impeccable service, fine linens, chinaware, and flatware of course, all while counting the dead and wounded and how much will it cost to cover their places, taking stock of the pulverized towns and deciding, should we rebuild or just pave it all over and create a resort, and maybe the mercenaries should be offered more money to go back and cover the gaps and better life insurance in the event of getting whacked by gangpressed Ukrainian conscripts in the trenches, oh well, no problem, just another tax payer to be ripped off, isn’t that why they exist? Please pass the caviar.
As usual, the US plays “chess” like a pigeon.
Arrogantly struts around the board making unintelligible noises, knocking over the pieces, shitting everywhere, declares “Mission Accomplished” and flies away.
Dissecting the MSM “analyses” is a disgusting job and we are grateful to Larry for doing it so we don’t have to.
It is a sort of forensic analysis of the vomitus of a moribund patient.
LOL
People speculate about things we can’t know, and often this leads us far from the truth. I think a good starting point for analysis is to understand the fundamental needs (not desires) of the elites of any hierarchy, the first of which is to retain power and avoid being gobbled up by some other elites. There may or may not be some underlying commitment to the welfare of ‘the people,’ but this is always claimed. Putin seems to have it, Biden certainly doesn’t.
The foundational power base of American elites is the global financial system, but this is always a bomb not waiting, but trying to go off. American policy is always driven by the need to ‘stabilize’ something that is inherently unstable. The financial system has to eat something, and if it doesn’t extract wealth abroad, it has to extract wealth from its citizens closer to home. The longer it survives, the greater its appetite becomes, so currently the US elites are extracting everything they can from Americans, but they still need new foreign sources. The low-hanging fruit was Europe, which is already militarily occupied by the US and governed by corrupt politicians aligned with the US. The Ukraine war is really about the US conquering Europe, again. Hooray! We’re winning!
“we heard … ‘We are fine that your soldiers will be dying without support from the sky.”
It was “baked” into the plan from the beginning. You “the Ukrainians” will do the dying……we “the west” will do the directing.
Russia is the target, Ukraine is the shite and the fan for the delivery.
All that was required for the corrupt morons to accept this “deal” was some fiat paper, fresh off the printing presses and the “magic” phrase; “whatever it takes”. I guess that translates into Abracadabra in Ukrainian?
Shite plus fan for MORONS: Ukrainian edition! ZEDited by Z!
The idea that Russia engaged in human wave assaults is preposterous on its face. You dont even need to bring up lack of evidence. If you are in impregnable defenses with total air and artillery superiority, you hunker down and allow the attacker to wipe themselves out. You dont build these things and amass these weapons so that you can send your own troops out in the open to be mowed down by the enemy. A 5th grade dropout would be able to understand this .. easily
“How many more Ukrainians need to die before Washington and London wake up and realize that they have lost?”
The short answer? All of them….
…..ahmmm…..then the Baltics and the Poles will have to follow and so on…………….or else we will have to send “your” uncles, sons/daughter…… errrr…… (they/thems)!
There is no reverse gear for these people……..The solution to stop this madness is for someone to target the US printing presses.
How many more Ukrainians need to die before the still living realize they’ve been had?
Thanks Larry for your analysis of the WAPO articles. Beyond depressing but necessary.
What is it with this fetish of “NATO-trained” armies? At this point it’s the Ukrainians, the average 43-year-old former bus driver now conscript, who should be training NATO’s professional soldiers in the finer points of modern warfare.
Meanwhile back on Genocide Central (from MoA):
Sad news:
Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2 – 19:52 UTC · Dec 7, 2023
Israel killed Prof. Refaat al-Areer, one of Gaza’s most prominent writers, poets & activists who spent his life trying to get Gaza’s voice to the outside world.
He was killed in a targeted airstrike on his sister’s home that also killed his brother, sister & her 4 kids…
Refaat’s pinned tweet:
Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸 @itranslate123 – 13:01 UTC · Nov 1, 2023
If I must die, let it be a tale.
#FreePalestine
#Gaza
His writing:
My Child Asks, ‘Can Israel Destroy Our Building if the Power Is Out?’ –
On Tuesday, Linah asked her question again after my wife and I didn’t answer it the first time: Can they destroy our building if the power is out? I wanted to say: “Yes, little Linah, Israel can still destroy the beautiful al-Jawharah building, or any of our buildings, even in the darkness. Each of our homes is full of tales and stories that must be told. Our homes annoy the Israeli war machine, mock it, haunt it, even in the darkness. It can’t abide their existence. And, with American tax dollars and international immunity, Israel presumably will go on destroying our buildings until there is nothing left.”
But I can’t tell Linah any of this. So I lie: “No, sweetie. They can’t see us in the dark.”
How Refaat was murdered:
شهداء غزّة Gaza martyrs @Gaza_Shaheed – 12:54 UTC · Dec 8, 2023
Important information on Refaat’s assassination:
The day before yesterday, Refaat received a phone call from the Israeli intelligence about locating him in the school where he took refuge. They informed him that they were going to kill him. He left the school not wanting to endanger the others, and at 6 p.m. his sister’s apartment was bombed, where he was killed, his sister and her four children
“The Israeli military directly bombed over 14 hospitals in Gaza City and North Gaza using missiles from aircraft and tank shells. Kamal Adwan, Shifa Medical Complex, and Al-Muamalani Hospitals were among the targeted hospitals.”
(They are also attacking West Bank hospitals btw and there thousands of injured in the West Bank).
I hope people understand the sadism: the injured are bleeding to death without treatment. With or without the ampuations without anaesthetic. Seprarately Euro Med Monitor said there around 5,000 disabled now (in addition to the ones from before). Those with digestive, respiratory and skin diseases get no treatment and are at further risk of death from dehydration and starvation.
Reportedly, Israhell is using an AI product called “Gospel” to locate specific targets in Gaza (besides the standard targets for destruction; hospitals, kindergardens, ambulances, women, todlers, and babies). I assume they are searching through multiple databases and collating the data. According to reports, they are locating 100 targets a day with AI while previous methods located 50 a year. A “target” is your mom’s house, your sister’s house, your family, if you are a name the database selected by the computer, your famly dies. It’s been called an “assasination machine”.
That such a state cannot continue to exist and must be dismantled is an unavoidable conclusion. The problem is that “regime change” would only provide camouflage.
The tricky question is what to do with the 85% of the Israeli Jews fanatical about their death cult who developed such a state. They are not coexistence-capable.
It doesn’t exist. All we have there are a bunch of ghouls who are able to act in concert with each other. There is no “Zionist entity” other than each of the two-legged supremacists themselves. There are about 7.2m Zionist entities in Palestine plus at least as many elsewhere. When, one day, they are no longer able to act in concert with one another, the appearance of the state will vanish. In the meantime, expect the Goa’uld to persecute and assassinate many Judeophobes in western Europe and N. America. Because “never again”.
Despicable, plus a dozen other words come to mind.
Cultural genocide.
There is an American tendency to believe our own lies, is the first problem, to make true what we want to be true against all odds and evidence to the contrary.
Secondly, we never considered the Mackinder protocol and the Russian history concerning it. Russia is the Heartland. Many peoples and countries have tried to march through there on their quest for world domination and failed. This is a people with a long and storied history of succeeding at war.
Thirdly, if we didn’t think 2008 in Georgia wasn’t a wake up call for them we were dreaming. They were completely ready for 2014 and secured their strategic position in Crimea with no difficulty. Then when they were finally forced to go in 2021 and we’re thwarted, they made an advanced tactical move of retreating and digging in. Their ability afterward to both shrug off sanctions and to mobilize a competent and superbly equipped force in less than a year is evidence they we’re already hardened for this.
This is why there were at least some people in the beginning and early on understood this was an ill advised project.
The big problem with too much disinformation is that your own people believe it. I had some disagreements with people I know at the senior officer level who were part of the training and they seemed to completely believe their own narrative. One thing they kept on repeating was how high Ukrainian morale was.
The manure spreader has been rolled back a few yards and turned on full flow. As the information rearguard proceeds, watch for layers of BS covering the last propaganda retreat line as the original narrative we were hearing two years ago goes into Orwell’s Memory Hole.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
re: After reading this report I now understand why Ukraine and the West routinely are disparaging the Russian forces as inept, poorly led and bereft of morale — I believe it is a Russian disinformation campaign. The Russians are spreading that information in order to mislead the Ukrainians and their NATO allies. It is being fed to the Western intelligence agencies and they are lapping it up without looking for corroborating information.
I have been wondering about that many times – in many ways it is the only rational explanation. Every idiot would not expect the Russians to be inept for more than a short while; just as long as it takes to take corrective action – which they have done time and again in history.
Would be interesting to find out whether this was really on purpose, or just the result of Western ignorance & arrogance
That depiction of Russia by the West is centuries old. It’s a meme that predates the term meme. You just need to kick the door, and the whole Russia will collapse.
Russians had to do absolutely noting. West does it all by itself. Stories about washing machines, toilets, shovels, you name it.
— “U.S. and Ukrainian officials said they never expected that two months of training…”
they say this now (not to look stoopid in light of what hapened?).
but what did they think as they were planning it?
They thought that Russians would be scared by Leopards and run away.
Despite the fact that Russia is crumbling, it lost in Ukraine, and it has been totally isolated in the world, and despite the fact that he personally is very ill (the list of his diseases is too long to write here), Pres. Putin announced his decision to run again in Russia’s presidential elections in March 2014! Amazing.
I think his complete detachment from reality is due to the fact that he either does not read WaPo, NYT, or any of the Western MSM, or he doesn’t understand those analyses. High-caliber thinkers, analysts and geostrategists in our government (like Biden and the State Dept) and military ) like Lloyd Austin need to renew their efforts to enlighten him.
re
Pres. Putin announced his decision to run again
didn’t you hear – he has dozens of body doubles
he has died multiple times already …
“putin” will be presidents for decades more …
Right you are! I forgot.
I wonder which of them decided to give the US a little taste of its own medicine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6QEqQ7r7B4
Reading WaPo, NYT, Grauniad, Economist can cause terminal dementia.
I would advise Larry to look for an antidote.
Oh wait – he went to Moscow. Just what the doctor ordered!
Meanwhile Putin is in Riyad , for a bit of sunshine – with an incredible airforce welcome display.
You’v missed the mark completely. Putin died months ago. The only question now is, which of his two (or is it three) doubles will take the reins.
Who is in charge?
Secular France has banned the procession in homage to the Virgin Mary on the feast of the Immaculate Conception in the French capital.
The prefect has assured that:
Those who intend to introduce this procession may be taken to court.
Meanwhile, yesterday in the Elysée itself, politicians celebrated Hanouka with the Jewish community…..
https://t.me/espiritutemplario/70434
On the origins of this Catholic festivity in Spain which extended to the rest of the world….
Remember what Macron’s wife proposed for the rebuilt Notre Dame in Paris?
Then one gets an idea of what is in charge.
Phallic idolatry, befitting a Caesar no less. Maybe she just has a sense of humor.
What could she possibles add to Norte Dame? Do tell.
Macrotte va finir par se prendre une Notre-Dame en plâtre dans la tronche à la Silvio Belusconni et ça sera un des seuls trucs qu’il aura pas volé … Garant de la laïcité républicaine ; tu parles ; le gonze est même pas garant de son propre fion !
Mais la gonzesse?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53357792
A rooftop pool was too over-the-top!
“When the 13th century roof of the Paris cathedral caught fire during restoration works in April 2019”
I bet some curtains caught fire, nothing else. …
A six-point star=shaped swimming pool on top would have been nice.
5-pointed, for the Nephilim to swim, and things.
The answer to your last question Larry… all of them…. The incompetence mantra is really hard to believe….I think all of this Slavic death is the desired outcome for the “real people” running the show in the west…trust me it’s not Austin, Biden, Milly, etc…running anything
Exactly!
https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1732875650233487567
Tucker Carlson confirms Austin said this :
In a classified briefing in the House yesterday, defense secretary Lloyd Austin informed members that if they don’t appropriate more money for Zelensky, “we’ll send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia.” Pay the oligarchs or we’ll kill your kids.
The MIC threatened the GOP in a classified briefing for money. Cannot be clearer than that.
All masks have fallen off the Empire of Lies.
Well, time for the uncles, cousins and sons to revolt…
Thta is extortion… in the best case…
“Thta is extortion… in the best case…”
No that is libellous.
Extortion needs either “convincers” or believers as well as implementers otherwise it would be a conflation of attempt with achievement in emulation of “The American Way.”
In context most likely it was an attempt at a fear close as outlined in the sales manuals, since the teddy bear option is not an option since Mr. Austen is no longer perceived as cuddly.
Is he actually planning to send the illegal immigrants to fight Russia? Is this why Biden is allowing them in, to make people so angry they’ll be happy when the meat grinder gets them?
Could be – the draft bar is lowered, also in Germany.
Out of the Fat, into the Fire.
Just watch now Ukrainian refugees being sent back to the front.
Still , Austin prefers homegrown meat.
I think the overall conduct of the U.S./ U.K. was not incompetence it was willful negligence. After all, who cares as long as the MIC and the wester oligarchs are making big profits.
The whole endeavor is evil.
The big mystery isn’t why American political and military leadership is so inept and evil, throwing Ukrainian lives away with no hope of achieving any aim other than “weakening Russia”. The big mystery is why countries see endless examples of what happens when they count on America as an “ally” and yet they continue to align themselves with America – a country that always and everywhere only serves its own interests and will drop any “ally” the instant it becomes in their interest to do so.
The fact that Samantha Power goes to Hungary hoping to instigate a regime change shouldn’t surprise anyone. The surprise should be that she isn’t chased out of the country by an angry mob and instead has liberal Hungarian dupes willing to become yet another vassal state of the US. Same thing for Georgia and Armenia. I’m looking at you, Pashinyan. Do they really believe trying to join NATO would bring them anything but destruction while DC neocons use their sons as cannon fodder? Fucking retards.
“The big mystery is why countries see endless examples of what happens when they count on America as an “ally” and yet they continue to align themselves with America”
It only seems like a mystery because you’re using words loosely. There is no ‘America’ involved here, or ‘countries’ that align with ‘America.’ There are simply tiny elites whose interests do not align with their own populations’, who reap rich rewards for aligning with American elites who also have no concern about their own population. It may have seemed obvious to you and I that Zelensky would come to a bad end the moment he ran for president of Ukraine, but Zelensky was always a creature of Kolomoisky, and in no position to make plans of his own. Kolomoisky clearly over-estimated the value of being a Zionazi when dealing with Ukronazis, and his asking price for handing over the controls of Zelensky to Washington was too high, and he paid the price. He and the other Oligarchs may yet escape with their lives though, and with considerable fortunes. Maybe this is enough to explain ‘why’.
As Sir Henry Kissinger, KCMG liked to say
“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”
The sheer brutality of 1.1 million Ukrainian casualties, untold Russian casualties, for some reason gets right under peoples radar – NATO bombed ally Germany’s NordStream pipelines. Friendly fire?
After the global assassination bureau killed McKinley, Garfield, Rathenau, JFK, Herrhausen, Moro, Ponto, Rohweder, friendly governments know what friendship implies.
Let’s all be friends, shall we????
Strict orders from the Donor Class are demanded to be followed by all the minions in the Western countries, otherwise punishment will be meted out against them. This is how our Western world has devolved: those who control the money rule everything.
Larry Johnson has written another sagacious article. What I cannot understand is why Austin and Milley failed to see facts on the ground that refuted their assumptions and why they took propagandic Ukrainian reports of successes at face value (before the “counteroffensive”), and also propaganda about how bad off the Russians were. Everyone was lying or wishing themselves into a huge miscalculation.
For example when Petraeus stated in an interview that “Russia’s defense is brittle” and that Ukraine would likely break through the Russian lines and blitzkrieg all the way to the sea of Azov? Where did he get that idea? Probably by wishing or misperceiving that Russian planned withdrawals in earlier battles was the Russians “breaking” when in reality it was purposeful action in order to save understrength units and create fire sacks.
The hubris and incompetence in the senior ranks is stunning.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair
Sinclair underestimated the ability of US Zionist bought-off politicians and bureaucrats to resist understanding things… substitute “impossible” for “difficult”.
General Betrayus was proven a know-nothing putz in Iraq, Afghanistan and similarly now opining on Ukraine.
Such “mistakes” are easy to justify when it’s not your own physical ass that will be blown up when it all goes wrong.
Petraeus should spen more time shopping for a better rug instead of that worn down one he wears.
This from cassad sums up the situation, money designated for Ukraine never leaves the us and is a bonanza for the MIC:
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8814700.html
Here are the two telling statements:
1) “The 47th had been selected to be a “breach force” at the tip of the counteroffensive and would be equipped with Western arms. But as Milley made his rounds and chatted with Ukrainian soldiers — from young men in their 20s to middle-aged recruits — many (of them) told him that they had only recently left civilian life and had no combat experience.”
2) “Seventy percent of troops in one of the brigades leading the counteroffensive, and equipped with the newest Western weapons, entered battle with no combat experience.”
If these statements are true, then the Ukrainians had already lost the war even before their counteroffensive began. Because it indicates that their forces had already been depleted to the point that they could not replenish, rearm, retrain enough troops to continue to fight competitively against the Russian army. Citizens bearing arms without training are NOT an army; they are simply cannon fodder. Everyone knows this, so both the Americans and the Ukrainian military officials are responsible for the mass killing of Ukrainian citizens. And, btw, I have read that the real casualty ratio is almost 30 Ukrainians to 1 Russian (i.e. 1.1 million to 37K). But that’s only what I’ve read.
Relatively good estimate of Russian casualties is done by Mediazona. They are pro-West, and counting obituaries, funerals, etc.
Number of dead on the other side is kept secret for obvious reasons, and all estimates are guesstimates. Most of them say that it’s several hundred thousands. Graveyards are full, but no one dares counting the dead. Mobilization of women, and men with disabilities, is clear sign that they are running out of soldiers.
Total casualty ratio is more like 5 to 1, or 10 to 1, or somewhere around that. I’m talking about dead, of course. Number of injured is higher, and they often recover to get back to the frontline, in order to get wounded again, or KIA.
I noticed that Putin has an escort of 4 armed SU35 fighters during his trip. Smart man! Looks like the Kinzhal-armed jets patrolling the Black Sea are ongoing as well. I would assume the Russian planes in Syrian are standing by too. Given that the US and Israhell are both ruled by insane psychopaths at present, I’d arm the jets with couple of contingency nukes if i were him.
I suspect he reads the blog here whenever he can, for the helpful advice! If so, just reply .. pseudonym of course .. can older people emigrate to Russia? 😉
Not sure it’s disinformation that Russia is weak, they’re not. The US considers ALL the nations of the world to be weaker than the US. We have a narcissistic attitude about our military abilities. This blinds us to any outcome that does not fit what we’ve told ourselves and believe. Our intelligence could have said Russia has a top tier military and we still would have bull rushed the frontlines with Ukrainian soldiers. It’s what we do, because that’s what we are. When the only tool in the box is a hammer, everything is a nail. And that’s what the frog learned from the scorpion as they both drowned. Ukraine being being the frog and the US being the scorpion.
“After reading this report I now understand why Ukraine and the West routinely are disparaging the Russian forces as inept, poorly led and bereft of morale — I believe it is a Russian disinformation campaign. The Russians are spreading that information in order to mislead the Ukrainians and their NATO allies. It is being fed to the Western intelligence agencies and they are lapping it up without looking for corroborating information.”
😉
Getting a quarter way through interviews with the likes of Petraeus, Hodges, etc and of course the no 1 imbecile Lloyd Johnson would make western politicians stop provoking Russia or any other competent military immediately, fire these Llloyd Johnson’s, find a first class field marshall/General start again but preferably learn how to coexist (and all of us prosper) with the neighbours we have. But they’re even stupider, not at risk and will both retire in style.
Larry,
Sounds like you are describing the problem highlighted two decades ago:
WASHINGTON, June 7 – President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain presented a united front on Tuesday against a recently disclosed British government memorandum that said in July 2002 that American intelligence was being “fixed” around the policy of removing Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
I don’t really understand why the claim of air support would make any difference, the air can’t clear mines and if the understanding is that it would somehow stop Russian air, it basically relies on the VKS being asleep at the wheel the entire time and air defence being switched off…
The US Forces could also have done much better in AF and IQ. Basically stay at home.
I think you all are missing the point. USA has the BEST simulation war games machines. It is just a crying shame, others (like Russia in this case) are acting different on the battlefields!
For moderator only, not for posting on the forum:
You must have pretty thick head, if you didn’t get my short comment, where I made a sarcastic comment about western war games machines, since you deleted mu comment. My post was fun in nature but spot on topic.
Because my comment was deleted, I will never again post here…
GL moderating and with the hopes, you do a better job in the future
Al
The moderator you are trying to talk to, is automatic anti-spam filter that results in some posts appearing with delay.
Ups, gotcha, my bad and thanks 😉