U.S. policy in Ukraine is in tatters and the Biden Administration is flailing about like a drowning man. I have several videos that should be viewed if you’re in the mood to binge that tell the story in an entertaining fashion. And it is not just me talking. You’ll hear from John Mearsheimer, Andrei Martyanov and Ray McGovern. I also want to introduce you to a Mr. Orfalea. More about his later.
First up, Andrei Martyanov and I were interviewed Wednesday by Dmitri Simes Jr. on his channel, New Rules. We focused on the military situation in Ukraine and, if I do say so my self, did a damn fine job!!
A good companion piece is a shocking development — PBS actually allowed John Mearsheimer on the News Hour where he obliterated the Ukraine is winning narrative. The fact that PBS felt obliged to actually have an informed voice on air instead of regurgitating the propaganda of Michael Kofman is a sign that the worm is turning in the Washington swamp. John did a magnificent job.
If you ever had a doubt about the group think and propaganda that defines Washington, D.C. then all you need is a dose of Orfa — Matt Orfalea to be precise. Brilliant work! Did you know that Ukraine is going to win? Must be true, I saw it on YouTube:
By the way, that image of Shep Smith is scary. He’s put on some pounds and looking his age.
I will close out with the Friday staple — Ray and I chatting it up with Judge Napolitano. We cover the waterfront.
It’s a given that the proxy war against Russia is lost, but when will it ens?
…but when will it end.
It ends when the Rothschilds and their minions are exorcised from all positions of wealth and influence, and others prevented from taking their places.
Or the punditry can carry on pretending the Rothschilds are just another innocent Banking Dynasty that hasn’t been manipulating geopolitics for over 200 years.
In the Napoleonic Wars to control the Royalty and Bank of England, funding and supporting the mid-late 1800s Zionists Movement, Balfour Declaration and Sykes-Picotte, funding and encouraging the violent Zionist Jewish settlers into Palestine, media-focusing up the Holocaust to ensure UN181, running the WEF “you will own nothing” Great Reset. Currently Lynn de Rothschild running the Council for Inclusive Capitalism and backing Hillary Clinton. And that’s just a sampler.
Naw, nothing to see here folks.
The proverbial six (((gnomes))) of Zürich ruling the world.
I wouldn’t bet my life on that theory, or something similar, not being true. What I want to know is how the Rothschilds, or whoever’s running the show, manages to keep their control of events under wraps.
Here’s a photo of a Rothschild poking the, then, future king of England in the chest. From this image, we’re supposed to extrapolated who’s calling the shots. This kind of “proof” is too vague, it’s disingenuous. I want irrefutable rock-solid proof that the Rothschilds, The Trilateral Commission, or anyone else are the true masterminds ruling the world.
I won’t hold my breath.
If you can get the Rothschilds to open their books, it’s all there. But the facts I have already repeatedly put forward are not circumstantial. Certainly more convincing than Lord Rothschild being able to poke the Prince in a manner that would have landed you, I, or any other commoner in jail for assault.
See bonbon here assiduously pointing to the City of London, Uncle Tom Cobley and All.
OF COURSE all the 0.01% are involved to varying degrees (that’s the nature of “business”), but there’s only one group who all the threads eventually link back to. Especially on Israel and the Zionist Movement. For 200+ years.
I’ve posted it all many times, not gong to do it again. You’ve been here long enough to have seen it, but refuse to accept what is put before you.
“There are none so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.” – Goethe
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard
Americans take too simple a view – the Oligarchy “tradition” is ancient dating at least to Babylon writings. The latest “families” are fully aware of this. Kings, Emperors, Presidents are dispatched as necessary. King Charles III knows full well what happened to George V.
Too simple?…
You’re REALLY trying hard to deflect attention from the Rothschilds, getting old.
So you’re AGAIN claiming George V was murdered. We’ve been through this before here, let’s review again, so readers see how you just keep dredging up the same old crap.
And this has what to to with “American’s” views? Most don’t have the foggiest notion who George V was, let alone how some “oligarchic” conspiracy theory MAY have had something to do with his death. At most a few days or weeks early.
He was 71 years old and in poor health, blamed on excess smoking.
Here’s the story from his physician’s mouth AND the Windsor Castle Archives.
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-king-george-v-really-die
The use of such drugs is still common today in situations where there is no hope of recovery and only current intolerable levels and an increase in suffering to come. While the doctor may have overstepped his authority on timing, I doubt the Royal Family would have done things much differently.
You obviously have never had the responsibility to decide when a loved one has had enough, and it was time to let them leave life with some semblance of dignity. My family has faced that task too many times, and I don’t wish it on anyone. But until you’ve been there, you have no right to speak on the subject.
It rankles Evangelical Christian sensibilities that families make decisions the extremists don’t agree with.
If Evangelicals want to deny their suffering family members the dignity of death, and would rather subject them to needless suffering, fine, your choice. But for the rest of us, butt out of our lives on topics already difficult enough. Your bullshit sanctimony is unwelcome and presumptuous.
The MAID laws have provisions in place to prevent widespread abuse, so stop trying to use that to wedge the issue.
Ya, “simple”… calling what was, and still is, a common medical practice to end needless suffering “murder”.
You should ask the CIA, they have the answer.
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/4A/4A92FD2FB4DAE3F773DB0B7742CF0F65_Coleman.-.CONSPIRATORS.HIERARCHY.-.THE.STORY.OF.THE.COMMITTEE.OF.300.R.pdf
I couldn’t agree more.
What is the connection (if any) with George Soros and the Rothschilds?
At minimum Soros is a fellow traveller of the Rothschilds, but there are many photos of Trudeau and Freeland sitting in rapture at Soros’ knee. We know the Trudeau/Freeland connection to the Rothschilds through Schwab/WEF “penetration”. (Klaus is a blood Rothschild)
They share common purposes playing the “NGO game” to subvert and destabilize gov’ts worldwide. Soros would not be permitted to do what he does if the Rothschilds didn’t find it fit their Great Reset Agenda.
Soros played the same Shorting Scam on the Bank of England in 1992 as the Rothschilds did during the Napoleonic Wars, and controlling the Bank of England is firmly inside Rothschild turf for 200 years. Ya don’t tweak the Mafia Don’s nose and get away with it… Soros still stands.
MikeBenz, several good interviews/talks. Leads me to wonder about the endgame.Why does the Deep State continue topush a lost narrative. For some reason they think it not yet entirely lost. That “reason” has to be bigger than Ukraine.
How come Ukraine is losing territory and has to mobilize 500 thousand men for the 3th time?
When the SMO started, the Ukrainians believed that NATO would be backing them against Russia.
Now, they realize that they have been fooled. But the US and UK demands that Zelensky stay in power, because he has way too much information about their involvement in the NATO proxy war against Russia.
The NAZIs in Kiev are grasping at straws in an attempt to keep themselves relevant. However when their regime collapses these NAZIs and enlistment offices will be hunted down and killed by their citizens.
The coordinated MSM propaganda since 9/11 has set the Western population up for a major defeat.
The MSM knows that their lies to the Western population about the COVID and the true state of the war in Ukraine have destroyed their credibility. The reality is that the Ukrainians never had a chance against Russia.
Instead the Dynastic Globalists and their satanic NAZI disciples have had their eyes on Russia’s resources since the fall of the Roman Empire. The Ukrainian population has been used as disposable pawns for the Empire, and for the 3rd time in history Western Europe is out to destroy itself by marching on Moscow.
Doubling down on stupid describes the actions of European Nations.
At present, the Western population is being railroaded by their own governments in order to prevent them from opposing these stupid Imperial policies. Political Agents are emptying all European Nations of their weapons stockpiles so the Imperial army can take over every small European Nation without a fight.
This slow-motion Fascist (EU) coupe, is currently becoming clear every farmer in Europe.
The WH has decided it’s time to change the narrative, that: “Ukraine is winning the war”.
They no longer think that Ukraine can hold out till the November elections.
The US wants sanctions in place to harm European Nations, and is now trying to provoke a nuclear war.
The F16s from Demark and other NATO Nations are intended to disarm smaller NATO Nations, and use these weapons on behalf of Ukraine to attack Russia with US supplied Nuclear weapons.
The BRICS, EAEU and the global South are uniting with China and Russia, while the West is being isolated. Globalization has Offshored Western industry, and deindustrialization is now taking place in the West.
Raw materials and energy are the two pillars of successful economies.
By October 2024 de-dollarisation will escalate and the US dollar will collapse
This will lead to the cancellation of the US presidential election.
By then the Middle-Eastern Royalty can’t stem the tide rising against the genocide by Israel in Palestine. Israel will be completely overrun and end its days as an Imperial terror state.
The future of the West is going to be either:
Imperial disintegration and National prosperity,
Or a 3rd World War ending Western civilization.
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Here’s Alexei Navalny shooting a Muslim in his infamous Muslims=Cockroaches skit.
LOL!
I wonder how Biden’s crew is gonna explain their newest Saint’s past behavior to their “Free-Gaza!” constituents.
https://odysee.com/@YuBratNavas:f/VID_20240216_224955_309:7
Alexei Navalny’s mother says, basically, that his son’s wife – and Biden’s new anti-Putin darling – is an unfaithful, conniving c-word.
https://odysee.com/@Velyaminov:a/Navalny's-wife-used-her-husband-for-political-and-economic-gains:8
When I saw her smiling at the Munich security conference, I knew she was bad news.
She was trying hard not to smile, but just could not keep it on. This is the best thing that ever happened to her. She will have enough money and fame to last her a lifetime, though it might not be a very long one.
It does not.
My view is that it continues at a low level (LIC – low intensity conflict), or in the shadows (covert, clandestine, Gladio/P2-style) for decades, perhaps even centuries.
The Straussian neocons and their allies/disciples/etc. have had a hard-on for RF’s resources (including the land itself*, and the freshwater) forever. They want to own or control all of it, directly or indirectly (e.g., through a comprador elite). They will never stop. Ever.
* See Also: “How Russia Wins the Climate Crisis” (NYT, 12/16/2020; https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russia-climate-migration-crisis.html)
The new cold war only needs to be warm enough to keep the Euro-peons in line.
“Euro-peons” wins the Net’s coinage of the day, for me! 😀
I’ve been using it since 2014, glad it’s finally catching on!
It migh catch on once Euro-penises is declared sexist, but it will never have the effect that Soviet-Pion has.
It shifts. Right now OTAN is making moves in the Artic, the whole point of bringing in Finland and Sweden. Likely to fail with a boomerang effect on the comprador regimes who have been destroying themselves from within, if it gets going at all.
The Borderlands, Galicia have been contested for centuries. That ends when OTAN is collapsed and dispersed. The Baltics go back to RF.
This time it seems to be getting to a longer resolution point. West Europe destroys itself and isn’t coming back quickly, if at all in its pre-1990 form.
The nuclear threat is still present, even with the recent screw-ups off FL by US and UK idiots. MI-6 is still the world’s 2nd biggest terrorist org
spreading death and destruction as the mad-dog of US/OTAN.
The top terrorist is the zionazi/talmudic Genocidal Israeli regime that is pressing hard for it’s own reckoning day and is a wild card that portends destruction for EOL along with itself.
Things are past the boiling point. There are ways out, but not betting on any before more escalations.
And all this is without considering East Asia!
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finland and sweden LMAO
Geography – Bases, ISR infrastructure, social and economic control, cannon fodder as in 404.
Sure. Yeah. Without a military and nazis.
Like Cuba or Bermuda ??
there are no “centuries” left for us, we all run out of time long before then
you are projecting your linear imagination into a future that does not exist
either we harden our civilisation and damn soon, or it will be the next “previous civilisation,” except our pyramids won’t last more than a couple decades
I was caught up in a similar vein. But I am going to only say what is positive. I always objected to suggestions like this. What I have been able to do lately started with meditation on just sounds, not words; like feel the sound bump through you Then I began to be able to stop
thoughts like negative predictions, and just this morning, when I
woke to a dream of violence talked about, I thought,this is so destructive.
Let’s change it up.
Well said, humans dont realize the power of their attitudes and thoughts.
Cynicism is a dark way of accepting and perpetuating what we dont want.
Yes, Let’s “change it up”… such masterful righteous rhetoric of yours as copied below should not be relegated to the absolute bottom of a comment thread where none will see it.
We must presume you mean every syllable of it, as you’ve had nearly a day to print an apology or at least a retraction.
“NHRIM 22 hours ago
Your anger, Johnson, performs like a disgusted sex actor. God sent me here to comment since the “judge” does not allow comments. There you imagined men sitting on another’s finger. Here you, who acted so outraged at men engaged in sex in congress, imagine the same to describe British parliament.
I would not rather be here therefore but I am come for you to say something.
God is justice. His kingdom is not this. You don’t know Him. You show that by saying
things will change when the money is spent.
The wars are not my wars. He can and has let wars and famines and disease destroy
His people for their sins. Men say then no all suffer the same. They protest the rich don’t, it isn’t fair. Men are of their opinions. Their thoughts are not His.
He certainly does not wait his justice on your money.
I have been sick for months. Doctors cast me from care years ago when they were accused of malpractice by others. So I depend on Him.
He says I am justice. He says there is no problem. He says listen for what you have never heard. I am with you always. God is spirit. You are not God.”
https://sonar21.com/the-u-k-s-ejectile-dysfunction-failure-to-launch/#comment-226458
AP, You’re a real jackass. The guy calmed down and is expressing personal growth and you react by tossing his one intemperate post in his and everyone else face?
Pretty much all of your posts are hysterical screeches repeating your same old, tired mantras, occasionally interspersed with self-pitying wails of ‘why does everyone down vote me,’ waaaahhh, waaaahhh,waaahhh.
Fuqqing coward. A pathetic adolescent brain in a 70+ year old body.
Awww, diddums not like my posts? Keep digging the hole you’re in, not deep enough yet?
Has NHRIM just as publicly retracted his words or apologized to our host for his imprudent and insult-laden outburst? 2 days and counting and no he has not. Who’s not the adult?
I’m SURE, you’d be equally accommodating if say, I, had written that piece of trash? And “calmed down” and tried to weasel out of such odious statements? Not buying your bullshit. And readers shouldn’t either.
If it weren’t for the endless circular PERSONAL Biblical gibberish and the massive over-reactions to being told it is inappropriate in a GEOPOLITICAL BLOG, we could all carry on with our lives.
But y’all think you have the right to verbally abuse anyone who dares point out the obvious. Sanctimonious asses.
I ran across a factoid the other day, surveys in the US used to show over 90% of Americans believed in God and Christianity. Now that number is well under 60% and dropping like a rock. Only 30% of the world shares Christian beliefs, and only a small sliver of that claim Fundamentalist Evangelical extremism.
Not because people in general are any less moral or family-values oriented, but because science and social progress incrementally reveals reality and people increasingly see religion for what it is and always was… a pre-built, legacy social-control system for the elites. Evangelical zealots are backed by the elites, wielding ideologically blinkered Christianity like a club, browbeating any who might want to live their lives differently to such strict theology. We’re sick of it up to our back teeth.
Back to the case in point: NHRIM has regularly displayed intolerance of others’ beliefs, as all the Evangelicals and Hasbara here have. Yup, religion is a great source of personal moral fibre. Or more, it demonstrates a marked LACK of respect for others’ rights.
I’ve said it MANY TIMES… believe what you want, but you have NO RIGHT to force those beliefs on others, or shout down others by wasting comment space blasting Bible passages.
Facts. Evidence. Reality. Those things matter. Regurgitating from the Bible only proves the paucity of your position.
So pack up your infantile, self-righteous, passive-aggressive, annoying little kit-bag of insults and Biblical nonsense. This is not the appropriate place for you to foist your Mission From God BS on the world.
And that includes trying to play the issue “wedge game”.
Again, when y’all stop, I’ll stop.
Dear downvoters,
You DO know that is NHRIM’s unedited post from another thread… I even provided the link to verify for yourself.
So are you downvoting NHRIM?
Or you think his mischaracterization of Larry was correct?
I’m guessing Larry can see who voted how…
You should turn off the computer, and go outside, and do something else for a while.
Follow your own advice if that’s all you have to offer readers.
Why should I self-censor to spare your tender sensitivities?
NHRIM sure didn’t hold back, but I’M the bad guy?
Shrugs…
Advice is made in good faith. Instead of acting like a smug prick, you should take it. It seems like your existance have boiled down to arguing over Internet. You (and some others) should turn off the computer, and go outside, and get a real life.
In good faith? More thinly veiled ad hominem.
If there is any more self-righteous, smug group of pricks on the planet than Evangelicals, I’d like to see them. At least the Jews aren’t out to convert anyone.
As if ANY Evangelical has posted at me in good faith here. Even when couched in apparent pleasantries, there is always an agenda, an attempt to co-opt, silence and shout down.
I give as good as I get and y’all don’t like it. If you’d look around, I post all manner of info that has zero to do with religion, not even a whiff. But somehow the proselytizers always manage to wedge in some aspect that leads to some moralistic bent… and we know where that originates.
It is an insult to be patronized and proselytized at by people who can’t see how their late-Bronze/early Iron-Age Fundamentalist Beliefs are so out of step in the modern world. Dogmatically taken from a confused, contradictory, tribal culture pile of mythology that the Bible/Abrahamic Texts are repeatedly proven to be.
And don’t dare require independent evidence to support Faith in those ideologies…
Take your own advice and scurry back to whatever political-religious blogs exist. The echo there will be much more pleasing to you.
My life is just fine, go tend your own row.
In good faith is common phrase, and has noting to do with religion or ideology, By reacting that way, you just shown yourself to be a right cunt, just like those religious nuts.
If life of any of you was anywhere near fine, you would not be swamping this comment section with tons of shit. All of you should turn off the computer, and go outside, find each other, and get a motel room to debate each other in private.
That is what all the downvotes mean.
You project.
No, “good faith” is a phrase with specific meaning, it is used to convey an honest attempt to find common ground and at least a compromise (which is a solution neither side is happy with), if agreement is not possible.
If you go to the original thread, you’ll find I responded to NHRIM sincerely believing he was having a potentially life-threatening medical situation, and advised he call Emergency Services. I was not joking. Delirium from an extreme fever or a reaction to any treatments is dangerous. But you never bothered to look any further than the end of your nose.
NHRIM has a history of overt and condescending religious moral pomposity here, and you have chosen to ignore that and defend his intemperate and insulting homophobic screed aimed at our generous host. If he is such a morally upstanding person, how did he EVER feel such a rant was appropriate, even if delirious? He could have expressed his position without doing as he did.
It’s called hypocrisy. One standard for him, another for the rest of us.
If after 2 days he can’t find it in “good faith” to as directly explain, apologize or retract his insults, why are you arguing his case?
I would let the matter rest if he did so. What he wrote above was none of that.
There is no agreement or compromise with your type. The fact you archly order me to go away and repeatedly insult me shows your lack of “good faith”, or any understanding of the concept.
Keep your oar out, it is none of your affair. If NHRIM has something to say, he can speak for himself.
You are so right. It is hard to “let go” of negative projections:) Meditation, which can eliminate all the thoughts banging around in our heads day and night, is truly the key to sanity:) Thanks for the reminder.
Dear friend – I did the same – Started meditating.
I was a litle bit too angry and confused by life and society. Then I realised the wisdom about life that life on earth is “samsara” or the playground of the gods… From the greeks…. Or like the vikings – after learningsand living life we go too valhalla and rest and enjoy….
So a good meditation is maybe one of the best solutions. It really remove a lot of confusion and disturbing emotions.
To the benefit of all beings, as the budhist says…
Have a nice day – everyone!
The SMO will end early ’25 solely on Russian terms. By October this year de-dollarisation will be in full swing and the US will start collapsing ( not having funds to pay for goods purchased that it normally got by freeloading )….this will probably lead to the cancellation of the US election. Israel will be completely isolated in West Asia and its end as a settler colonial power is guaranteed. The EU and NATO will also start their implosion…….all in all a very interesting year!
Sadly, that seems the most likely scenario. If the elites pulled back from their wars, the empire might stagger on for a few more years but they won’t do that.
Wouw – tuff times ahead –
Dont know if I should hope for that prediction- even that I have been doing that mostly times lately…!
True. They will never stop. The problem is that they will no longer be able to convince the rest of us to bleed for their bank accounts, because this Filth is SO greedy they’ve made it plain they won’t share the least crumb of their ill-gotten gains with those they call their countrymen.
The only outcome is death of the Western Elites, by one means or another. It is inevitable.
A key factor in how this, as you say, “low intensity conflict” pans out is on who, when the time comes, replaces Putin.
If the next few leaders of Russia are in Putin’s league, if they get a few more decades of Putin-caliber leadership. I’d say it’s ‘game over’ for the West. Especially if the West continues to be guided by bottom-of-the-barrel leadership, as is currently personified by Biden & Co.
Over the coming decades, as the quality of life collapses in the West, millions of Westerners will emigrate to the wide open spaces of Russia. My guess is that if you have a solid skills, learn Russian, and are relatively young you’ll be welcomed with open arms by the Russians. They know they need all the intelligent, energetic, high-quality, contributing people they can get to settle and grow Russia’s gigantic wide-open frontier.
The same has been said about hardcore Nazi Germany right before the end of WWII in Europe in May of 1945. But it played out totally differently: The Germans, being glad to have survived the war, gladly embraced the chances their new masters offered them to not just survive, but to regain wealth and honour. The result was the so-callsed “German Wirtschaftswunder” (aka “German Economic Miracle”) of the 1950s in the western occupied zones of Germany, while Sovietrussia made the mistake to loot what was left of any industry in Eastern Germany after the war to re-stock their own exhausted industrial base, The consequence of which was that Sovietrussia was stuck with worn, clapped-out german wartime machinery, while Eastern Germany was completely stripped of any industrial base and had to be completely re-stocked with machinery for years, in order to produce at least their own population’s basic needs, while in Western Germany, the quickly restored industry steamed full steam ahead to become the (then) powerhouse of the whole of western Europe, while the anticipated so-called “Werewolf”-partisans conducting guerilla attacks on allied forces and installations quickly proved to be nothing but an urban myth, hedged by sissy armchair Generals. The lesson in it is this: If you feed the defeated, your victory will be total and complete. And this is what Putin is going to do with Ukraine: He will rebuild Ukraine in no time, as soon as his troops will have defeated the ukrainian Army. There will be no guerilla warfare of any sorts. This is just another wet dream of half-literate american political and military losers, who cannot read even their own history books anymore. It’s all there. You just have to take a book on German post-war history and read it.
German Wirtschaftswunder as you put it involved freezing wages and unfreezing prices and using US troops to suppress the general strike in the U.S. Sector
You could do same in US now – simply hold down wages and give business more freedom
In 50 years
That’s a scientific question. ,
The collapse of nonlinear systems can be predicted just close to it, not from afar, and the signals are always a lengtheneing of the system’s response times.
The system we are considering and that will collapse when this war ends, is the Ukrainian side of the war.
This side has three separate components: investors, management and labor. Any of the three components collapsing means the whole system collapses.
Investors are USA+groupies. One signal of incoming collapse is the lengthening of the main investor (USA) time to send treasure and gear. In fact this investor decided to go on a vacation before deciding whether to keep funding the system.
Management are the Ukrainian civil and military leadership. They are enriching themselves with Western Treasure and not risking their lives so this part of the system is stable.
Labor are the troops and recently, in Avdeyevka, they started to retreat before receiving the order from management. This means that the time to decide by management has lengthened substantially so troops are making decisions by themselves.
Nervertheless, the usual reaction of the Ukrainian side to Russian wins are PR moves and attacks on Russian civilians. They continued doing that with the same delay as before the defeat in Adveyevka.
So I conclude we are not yet close enough to the Ukrainian collapse to see sufficient lengthening of its response times and then be able to predict the end of the war, BUT it seems from signals by investors and labor that we are close to a time when predictive ability becomes feasible.
That is not “science” – it is linear maths. Proven a dud with 100 climate models. Trouble is Palantir Pentagon AI and Israel Golspel AI are generating battle plans with this crap. Result – mass murder, no strategic gain.
Is math related to science?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_0iNGn8wso
Different to the West, the leaders of the 85% have a long-term vision with Plans A, B, C etc. They have already concluded that there won’t be an end as long as the decision-centers and decision-makers exist. They have said that they will go after these if need be. Once they feel that such need arises, they will act accordingly and this is the end.
Listening to the woman at the PBS video and her ilk – some whores masquerading as politicians come to mind – that won’t be long. Imagine the US response if someone called for rockets that can hit targets deep inside the US. The Russian response will be the same, except they will take every possible care to limit damage to civilians. They also have the benefit that their equipment, contrary to the West’s, by and large works – hence they have the capability to wipe out anything they decide is necessary to take out.
Funny, that Cofman was challenging Algebra. It is clearly in Russia’s, China’s, Iran’s etc. interest to wait as long as possible, while they gain strength and the West is degrading its forces. Easy to extrapolate for a military scientist when the West will be done degrading and when the own strength is at the target level.
This is Warning #1
Warning #2 is de-ratifying the 4+2 agreement directed at Germany. It seems to follow the typical pattern – a few deputies start a trial balloon, which has informally put German on notice. Their embassy staff is probably spinning in overdrive already, but with the political personnel that won’t matter much. This issue will now be discussed for a while and eventually the law is passed. This will be the formal notification. At the next opportune moment Ramstein or some other targets will be gone. The aftermath will show that NATO is toothless.
Who knows what steps will be next. It doesn’t matter, the final outcome is the same. Given that “doubling down on stupid” doesn’t properly describe the West’s actions – it is more like quadrupling and up, this point in time will be within a few years.
Because the mouthpieces demonstrate what the decisionmakers behind the scenes think, which in turn leaves only one conclusion, that there is no way to exist peacefully with the West. Russia finally got this – Merkel and Hollande bragging about their fraud was the last nail in the coffin. Iran and NK got it. China is slowly accepting it. Once the Mid-Eastern “elites” can’t stem the tide anymore and have to react to genocide commited on an industrial scale, it will be over. This will conveniently coincide with most of the degradation. If we are lucky, this will end with a whimper.
Thoughtful reply.
In regards to your statement “…Merkel and Hollande bragging about their fraud was the last nail in the coffin.”
Do you have any plausible explanation why Merkel and Hollande would admit their duplicity to the world when they did?
How is bragging about your untrustworthiness supposed to win over countries to your side?
As you said: “Iran and NK got it.” (The message that the West cannot be trusted.)
To me, it doesn’t make any sense to brag about the worthlessness of your word.
My one guess is that in their delusional belief that the West is the only game in town, they can be as contemptuous towards others as they wanna be with the arrogant belief that no countries can do anything about it.
If that’s their take, Russia’s in the process of changing it.
They were out of office
But still, admitting that lying is official German and French policy?!
I have no first-hand information. This is what it appears to me personally, but the following is merely a speculation on my part and so I cannot and do not assert that this is what really happened.
They were in a dilemma. On the one hand, their duplicitous act had worked, on the other they were attacked as having been too Russia-friendly. By admitting to their lie, they solved this dilemma and proved to be the baddest.
Neither can I say whether they thought the consequences through or whether the consequences mattered to them. Likely they didn’t think much and if they did, they didn’t care. At this point “the West / UK were winning”, so why would it matter what the conquered think.
How Russians would take the admission also didn’t figure into this; after all Russians are “Untermenschen”, “Semi-monkeys” in the Western and especially German world view, whose feelings don’t count, provided they have any in the first place. (See the Ukrainians are Vikings, Moskals are Mongol apes argumentation of Azov – courtesy of your tax dollars. Similar to Palestians who aren’t quite human, either, apparently).
I too noted the Deputies’ informal warnings re: the 2+4 agreement that unified Germany and wondered what prompted them.
My first reaction was that it was related to the rise of Alternative für Deutschland political party and the widening socio-political divide between former East & West Germany.
Too many breaches by Germany since 1990
It ends when the dollar ceases to be the world currency.
Nope, that is part of the Rothschild Great Reset, to convince nations and blocs to weaken each other so the masses clamour to be saved… by them of course… “you will own nothing”.
OOOHHH, downvotes… and your counter-argument is?
The Great Reset isn’t real? Tell that to the Rothschild minions showing up in their private jets at Davos every year. The Council for Inclusive Capitalism and the like doesn’t exist.
They state clearly their objectives, censorship of any non-WEF/Rothschild message was the biggie at the last Davos.
I see downvotes as a passive-aggressive form of censorship… but then literal 1,000s read here everyday and I get a consistent handful of downvotes…
Upvotes are “I agree and have nothing to add.”
Downvotes are “I disagree, but don’t have the courage of my convictions to say why.”
Shrugs…
The banksters’ order is based on “creation” of money. Money has value if you can buy things with it. If you can’t buy anything with it, your money is worthless. The bankster cabal’s power relies on the money that they create being used in international trade. If the dollar stops being used in international trade, it means that the money created by the bankster cabal becomes worthless. If the money that they create has no value, they have no power.
Not entirely true if they change to CDBCs after they have mopped up all the hard assets to then convert to their new currency. Remember their CDBC will not be AI monitored or have expiry limits like ours will have, no sir.
They’ll have the same problem with CBDCs as with the dollar. If the rest of the world doesn’t want to trade with Western CBDCs, they’ll be worthless. The dollar gained its status thanks to the confidence that the USA inspired. Trust is a conditio sine qua non for international trade. The wars in Ukraine and Palestine have shown that the West cannot be trusted. When it will be no longer feared, it will be game over.
This is why Bitcoin (not other cryptos) is different from fiat currencies or proposed CBDCs. Fixed supply, open independently distributed ledger, value is determined by what transactions dictate, not by a central authority.
And this is why the Rothschilds have had their gov’t, banking and legal minions trying to put that genie back in the bottle. Not working.
Just like ‘Upvotes are “I agree and have nothing to add.”’
Downvotes are ‘that’s so stupid that is not worth even an answer’.
Or do you think every nonsense here should be answered?
Don’t be a child, simply ignore both upvotes and downvotes.
‘the Rotschilds plan blaba blabla’
How can one give a counter-argument to that? Is that in the first place an argument?
Downvote and next.
You answered in exactly the way downvoters do… with nothing. And putting words in my mouth. I repeatedly said IF YOU HAVE ANY FACTUAL COUNTERPOINT TO ADD, POST IT.
If YOU have a better, more fully documented rationale than the Rothschilds being at the core of wars and geopolitical manipulations for over 2 centuries, LET’S SEE IT. They openly admit it, and you’re here to tell us it isn’t so… do some research before you expose your ignorance of the facts to the world.
I don’t downvote, but then you’d know that if you were paying any attention at all… I spent weeks here before I posted, that way I understood what had gone before.
Why should the “clever” nonsense be answered? Because otherwise it may be taken as fact by the unwary, or not recognized for the deliberate sabotage it is.
But again, you’d know that if you hadn’t just arrived.
Trying to place yourself on a the “parent” pedestal by calling me a child is precious, sonny. Few here are much older than I.
I must be over the target, given all the flak I attract.
And I’m STILL waiting for anyone to demonstrate a better set of documented sources of information as an alternative to the Rothschild Project Panopticon.
Y’all run around screaming “IT CAN’T BE TRUE… but offer nothing of similar reach and power to support your position.
Explain away Macron the ex-Rothschild banker, Merkel the 1992 WEF Leader’s graduate, Schwab (a blood Rothschild via his mother) bragging about the WEF “penetrating” gov’ts, with Trudeau (also Leader grad 1992), Freeland (refuses to acknowledge her Nazi-publisher grandfather Paperclipped to Canada, first name basis with Schwab, Soros protege, banned from Russia for her activities in helping building the Ukie-Nazi movement, brought Hulka to the Parliament) and Singh (WEF Leader grad 2018).
Again, just a sample from openly available sources, imagine what is there if any dared look deeper.
Naw nothing to see here…
LOL. couldn’t resist a downvote just bc U got so UNHINGED:) I agree that Zionists are the Deep State Cabal and they have been very busy for a very long time. That is self-evident considering the vast coordinated effort that we see playing out all around the Globe BUT… BRICS entered the scene and is rejecting Zionists as we speak (collectively) so there is room for change in the program. NOTHING is “in stone” bc this is a dynamic Universe:) that’s it.
Shrugs.
The Russians are not calendar obsessed as the West is. Putin said more than once very. clearly: It will end when our objectives have been attained.
Here are some, mentioned by Medvedev:
“Russia will have to continue fighting Ukraine until it takes Kiev and the coastal city of Odessa, former President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed. Both cities have “Russian roots” but are being run by US-led enemies of Moscow, meaning they present an existential threat, according to the senior official, who currently serves as deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council.
The remarks were extracts from an interview that Medvedev gave to Russian media, which he shared on social media on Thursday.
“Where should we stop? I don’t know,” he said, adding that a lot of “serious work” lies ahead.
Medvedev identified the source of the threat to the existence of Russia as an “international brigade of the opponents of Russia, led by the US,” who he claimed are in control of Kiev.”
Must be painful for the mighty UK not to receive even an honorary mention…
No need – just say UKraine. ’nuff said.
Ya, King Flappy Ears and Bojo the Clown leading the City of London behind it all, right? Not the Rothschilds… who for 200+ years are well documented to have manipulated geopolitics to their advantage.
Down votes again, you can’t win. Some people don’t seem to know where the dots come together. Keep trying.
Ya, literal 1,000s of site views a day here and my detractors can manage a handful or two at most…
If that’s a downvote success, I’d hate to see dismal failure.
Your Social Proof Logical Fallacy is showing.
Down votes are against individuals not arguments – it it bot like
If that helps you sleep at night… and other Social Proof, Appeals to Illegitimate Authority, Logical Fallacies.
Ad hominem is the passive-aggressive tool when facts, reason and logic is not in evidence. Standard Religious Establishment tactics. Ask Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler…
So according to you, downvoters are not any smarter than bots?
Keep digging…
Shrugs…
NATO war on RU only ends when EU divorces themselves from USA. There is alot of pain for EU people to reach that stage.
EU is a US construct
It needs destroying
Captain Obvious answer; When Russia has achieved its strategic political goals, the unification of the Rooskie Mir, rump Ukraine neutral, NAZIs dead and NATO castrated.
Looks like the Chinese are at it again. Breaking news is that there is a spy weather balloon flying over Colorado exactly one year and 20 days after we shot down the first one. Tony Blinken cancelled his trip to China to teach them a lesson. Then he spent months kissing Xi’s ass beggiing to reschedule.
This new balloon looks excactly like the one we shot down. The moron media has identified it as another spy baloon and all the commenters are demanding to shoot it down. Amazing how stupid the public is. But the big question is whether Biden’s handlers will be stupid enough to piss off the Chinese again. If so, they’ll have to do more than clean the shit off San Francisco’s streets to entice Xi to visit again.
In case you missed Larry’s article about it, here is the link. If you want a good belly laugh read the article for context then watch the embedded vdeo at the bottom. https://sonar21.com/the-biden-administrations-balloon-theater/
It would be funny as hell, if the Chinese painted in big red letters, TRUMP WON, on the side of one of those balloons. 🙂
And EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF on the other side.
Pres. Putin put up a trail balloon saying Biden would the preferred winner in 2024.
Predictably Biden shouted SOB, and Putin said he was right – Biden is predictable!
What will the Russiagate crowd do now? Pelosi hysterically saying Trump is blackmailed again by Putin, just won’t cut it!
Or if whoever really released the balloon wrote ‘OVERLOAD’ instead of reset in Chinese.
This could be part of a war of attrition: cheap, environmentally-friendly, Chinese balloon swarms (or flocks?) versus expensive, climate-changing, ‘rules-based’ globalist missiles.
LOOK SQUIRREL!!!!
If it went over Roswell, was it Aliens?
FFS people, wise up. China and Russia have better things to do. Usually a weather balloon is just a weather balloon. Until proven otherwise.
Its a guided intercontinental ballistic balloon – but at least the US has the tech to take it out. Any day now we’ll be hearing about those pesky Rooskies deploying a hypersonic balloon. Obviously, Congress must appropriate a gazillion dollar programme to establish US dirigible dominance.
The Japanese sent firebomb balloons in the direction of the US during WWII, which the US kept secret, but actually caused some damage and a disproportionate amount of turmoil.
I think it would be interesting if the Chinese started sending truthbomb balloons on a regular basis. They’d know it was working when the American press stopped reporting it.
“But the big question is whether Biden’s handlers will be stupid enough to piss off the Chinese again. If so, they’ll have to do more than clean the shit off San Francisco’s streets to entice Xi to visit again.”
The Three Stooges would do a better job of running the country compared to the nincompoop now in charge.
It’s clear that the mainstream media realizes that lying to the American people about the true state of Ukraine is going to destroy what little credibility they have left. Gradually, even the propaganda sources that pass as news in America have to gradually set the American people up for a major strategic defeat.
The reality is that the Ukrainians never had a chance. The West never had a chance, having badly underestimated the Russians and treated them with complete contempt. Russia had a much larger industrial capability and could be quickly scaled up in war.
There’s another consideration – trade with Europe was actually holding the Russian industry from reaching its true potential. Contrary to the fools that call themselves economists that insist that nations can only win from trade and invent garbage economic theories like “comparative advantage”, sometimes nations are hurt by trade. Cutting the trade ended up helping Russia.
Of course, none of that has ever been disclosed to the American people that rely on the mainstream media for news. They’ve been given a constant dose of propaganda that the rich wanted them to believe. But even for the American people, a sudden collapse will damage the media’s credibility so they have to gradually shape the narrative.
Perhaps after the US and Ukraine have lost, some Americans, like after Iraq will start to ask the hard questions. Maybe then they will learn about how the US lied to Gorbachev on NATO expansion, about the Minsk accords, and the real US goal, to get another Boris Yeltsin in power in Russia to loot the nation, then ultimately Balkanize the nation.
I am pessimistic about that. An alarming percentage of Americans are brainwashed by elite propaganda. Another group seems to be indifferent and care more about distractions like Taylor Swift or football. Perhaps the largest category of Americans are those who are struggling to survive. The truth is that living standards in the US are falling for all but the rich. Most don’t have the time to pay attention these matters.
Nonetheless, the cracks are undeniable in the mainstream media narrative. Whether or not this will lead to more Americans questioning their elites and their media after the Ukrainian defeat occurs remains to be seen.
US public is irrelevant
Biden stated that climate change is worse than nuclear war showing threshold has been lowered and that nuclear war is „climate neutral“ to U.S. regime
China and Russia KNOW US is trying to provoke nuclear war – F16s to attack inside Russia or long range missiles
US wants nuclear war
Nuclear war as “climate neutral” would be hilarious if not so serious. Complete jelly for brains across the entire political spectrum of the Collective
WasteWest. The future is going to be one of either utter humiliation and reputational disintegration or civilization-ending global war.Deagel’s forecasts are looking more and more credible.
Well I’m an American and I can assure you that I am NOT brainwashed thus my presence here on Sonar21. And I can also assure that I am constantly telling everybody I know what truly is happening in Ukraine. And I would say that 20% believe me, 40% don’t and 40% as you say, don’t give a shit.
Consider the possibility that the average American has their brain laundered in All with Exhilarating Lavender scent, while yours is cleaned with Tide Mountain Spring scent.
“comparative advantage” is not a garbage theory, it’s just common sense. As to many of the other academic theories, you are correct, however.
Ricardo needed an explanation and it has relevance but tariffs distort it and US Sanctions work as Import Controls for the country affected. Import Substitution becomes advantageous.
Russia was stupidly importing everything just like U.K. Germany is more self-sufficient in food production than U.K.
Factor endowments do not explain why Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China took consumer electronics industry from Europe snd U.S. nor why Philips of Netherlands ceased to be Panasonic‘s main rival globally to being reduced to AMSL and NXP
Poor quality management and not focusing on core business are not considered in Ricardo but are central as is Government protection and education
Don’t worry, the United Nations agenda propagated through the EU “government” will fix both germany and holland. They will produce enough for themselves at high prices and the rest of the world can starve
Yet Germany has pork production 120% national market even though superior Polish or Spanish pork is kept out of retail chains and Germany dumps low quality pork in EU markets
Trouble is Germany sending boar pork to Holland, re.importing as Wurst, when Boar meat tastes of “Urea”, banned, to put it politely,
Comparative advantage also does not explain how the US was able to industrialize and become a great industrial power. Why compete with Britain’s mature manufacturing base when comparative advantage suggests that the US should have remained an agriculture, cash crop dominant economy
Agreed, the US used Protectionism to build their economy. Just like the Brits did prior. Standard colonialist strategy.
PUTIN OFFERED TO JOIN NATO. They refused
that tells you ALL you need to know
It was what Gorbachev expected but that would have meant US losing control just as with Stalin Notes 1952 offering a United Neutral Germany
Another group seems to be indifferent and care more about distractions like Taylor Swift or presidential elections.
There, I fixed it for you.
Two snake oil salesmen in serious trouble with John Mersheimer. In any case, I find it so delusional that anyone thinks or argues that Kiev or NATO can defeat Russia on its border, that it would be more productive to debate the causes of the war than the pornography of war. But perhaps US television is not the best place to debate Russophobia.
But perhaps US television is not the best place to debate Russophobia.
A psychiatrist’s couch is.
PUTIN OFFERED TO JOIN NATO.
he was willing to make peace and be friends
the US and UK wanted none of that
That is because there is no money to be made with “peace”.
in American foreign policy but it seems that China and Russia and many other countries are now proving that this “strategy” is false.
The USA and Russia could have been great friends with a great shared future, those who intentionally sabotaged this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity deserve to be hanged.
Nope. USA is a psychopat that can not have friends, but only those that it uses and abuses. Russia is no one’s bitch, and some European countries are everyone’s bitches.
smh. I think this response is exactly how our foreign policy is enacted:( without any honest considerations. You can relegate the “philosophy” of why countries behave as they do to social sciences if you truly believe that strategies can be effective without understanding the Big Picture.
If it bleeds it leads… Cheap television when its other peoples’ lives.
mersheimer should have asked which factory is producing all these rounds? From a quick search, General Dynamics is contracted to make 11,000 rounds a month. From Time magazine this month “Russia has more than 4,000 artillery pieces in Ukraine, and is firing around 10,000 rounds a day across the front”
And US Army is close to producing 80,000 155mm shells per month
Dreamer
US Army is producing 0 155mm shells per month, and probably shooting them as much.
GD, according to Whitney Webb’s latest article on Unlimited Hangout is about as corrupt a corporation as exists in America:( and I do mean absolutely GROTESQUE.
Lester Crown
John got a few paragraphs to debunk a falsehood. But the tell was a beauty. Both of the tools said the same thing and she backed up the guy who was so sure of himself he doubled down disagreed with John.
I bet the shetool gets extra pay for backing him up by doubling up.
When someone gives you his double dog guarantee that he is right and 90% of the world knows he is lying, what is left to say?
Yeah, those two were reading off a really,short, dog ear-marked script. Rebecca what-is was even following Kofman’s lead, with tag team talking point punts. Pop in a quarter for a minute of stale spiel. What’s the short word I’m looking for? Ah….copium.
Thanks, Larry. I spend lots of energy avoiding msm spiel. Now you rub my nose in it.
I’ll take Mearsheimer any day for food for thought, but those two? ZZZZZZZZZZ
Are these people really that delusional ? The way I see it Russia has the capability to seriously up its game to the typical US shock and awe tactics but haven’t done so – I really believe Russia hasn’t begun to fight to its capacity because they know they are fighting NATO and intend to prevail if NATO is stupid enough to push this.
Besides Ukraine just keeps making stupid decisions – really they may as well shoot a percentage of their troops before they enter battle in the way they have – the same stupidity time and again.
The initial scenes of Ukraine advancing into mine fields and artillery barrages reminded me of Keystone Cops slapstick comedy except for the poor Ukrainian buggers sent into the slaughter by incompetent NATO commanders. If the Russians weren’t in a serious position due to insane NATO I’m sure they’d be rolling on the floor laughing at the levels of delusion and incompetence !
Ross…I don’t think they are delusional any longer. At the beginning of the SMO, yes they had a delusional belief that with the backing of the West they could beat Russia. Now, they are certain they have lost but are grasping at straws in a vain attempt to keep themselves in power and out of war crimes trials. On top of that, these commissars and the enlistment offices are going to be “fair game” for the citizens when this all comes down, and they don’t want that.
Zelensky and his henchmen, are fighting to stay in power; the West wants them to stay in power as well, since Zelensky and others have way too much information about Western involvement, meaning names of the guilty, that the West would not like revealed. I suspect that secretly, the West hopes the UA military removes Zelensky from power.
Zelensky and his henchmen, are fighting to stay in power; the West wants them to stay in power as well, since Zelensky and others have way too much information about Western involvement, meaning names of the guilty, that the West would not like revealed. I suspect that secretly, the West hopes the UA military removes Zelensky from power.
If the west wants Elensky dead, he’ll be dead. He still has some legitimacy in the eyes of Ukrainians, an AFU coup would have zero unless their first act was to surrender to Russia.
The US isn’t done with the SMO yet, they still need the sanctions against Europe. They just want a way to keep hope alive but not spend more money on it.
Besides Ukraine just keeps making stupid decisions – really they may as well shoot a percentage of their troops before they enter battle in the way they have – the same stupidity time and again.
It’s not stupid. Ukraine has a serious ammunition shortage, they can’t afford to shoot their own soldiers if the Russians will do it for them.
They have a NATO ammunition shortage
They have NATO weapons – US should strip its own units of munitions
Russian troops are now reporting that wounded foreign mercenaries are being shot dead by retreating Nazi forces.
This is not new. There is video from months ago of retreating Ukie soldiers gunning down English-speaking soldiers trying to that prevent retreat.
So the NATO “mercs” (actually troops in disguise) are part of the Avovs-etc. forcing the front line cannon fodder to stay put in the meat-grinder.
I’d hate to see those two in a casino, going for broke.
Ah, what do they care? It’s not their money, not their lives.
Shock and Awe ?
Typical US tactics ?
Where Huerttgenwald ? Korea ? Vietnam ?
US military bribed Iraqi generals not to fight
US military is unable to fight any real military and where will it find one ? It has nowhere to fight China on land and will never be permitted to introduce troops anywhere near Russia without its forces being destroyed in transit in Germany or Poland
The mines were being sown as they advanced by automatic mine artillery
Yes, sown BEHIND the advancing Ukies… deathtrap. And the NATO command knew it.
“Are these people really that delusional ?”
Never underestimate the power of a paycheque to influence a person’s belief system. What you witness are risk-averse conformists spouting the approved mantras that their think-tank funders require them to profess.
Were they to speak a contrary assessment, they would not merely have the paycheque cancelled, but their social acceptance with their swamp-mates would be cancelled. They’d be cast out to live amongst the deplorables. Bereft of a tank to think in, they’d never be allowed to express a thought to the powerful again.
Yeah but the guy looked like he was struggling while the woman was a complete shill.
Oh god, another round table with Ray. He could not even answer the first question without first going off on a tangent. I like the guy, he is brilliant, but I can no longer take time to listen to him ramble.
Yeah, I know, I will get a lot of negative clicks for that.
I see it differently, but that why there is a volume control.
It is easy to mute and skip watching parts of a prerecorded vid. Used it a lot with the PBS morons interview with John M. and with 95% (at least) of the ‘404 will win’ delusional vid.Got the message and didn’t once swear at the screen!
Oh I did, brought the volume back up when he was finished. I also noticed the dismay on the Judge’s face, after a moment or two, he then cut Ray off and moved him back onto topic. I also use close captioning where ever it is available to deal with the delusional views of guests on other sites. I play a game until I see the focus change on the person.
The “tangent” provides valuable context and frames it in a way that reaches more listeners.
Perhaps, but usually, it is a history so far back, it no longer matters. Wanting to know if Russia will invade a country does not require a world history of the Rus empire. From the look on the Judge’s face, he was not pleased and had to interrupt and move Ray back onto the topic. Most questions about the immediate and now, do not require a world history.
I think it matters much more because Russians are extremely principled by nature and stick to contracts and law to a fault. Also the reason why Putin gave the historic introduction. It may not matter to the Western argument how we got there or that fact is purposely ignored in order to shape the narrative. But they will be even more ineffective in their actions if they do not consider it.
The judge will get over it; Ray has been delivering him two sessions a week for a couple years now, so the least the judge can do is indulge an old man (who after all still personally engages in protest actions).
What are you, 15 years old? Impatient and you already know everything, and the Universe still revolves around you?
Who are you trying to convince, since you know you’ll take a drubbing for posting such rubbish?
Noise, just noise.
At least readers know to scroll on past your posts from now on…
You funny man! Ha Ha Ha.
That the best retort you’ve got? You try to damn McGovern with faint praise and wonder why you get it pointed out. Post information that is of a greater quality than McGovern and we’ll take your “criticism” a little more seriously.
Otherwise it’s just cheap shots from the Peanut Gallery. Sing along… It’s Howdy Doody Time, …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnUGAe0yqz4
Wow!
AP is a real jackass.
Pretty much all of AP’s posts are hysterical screeches repeating his same old, tired mantras, occasionally interspersed with self-pitying wails of ‘why does everyone down vote me,’ waaaahhh, waaaahhh,waaahhh.
Fuqqing coward, AP. A Pathetic adolescent brain in a 70+ year old body
You’re so angry you’re stuttering. It was untrue and ignorant the first time you said it.
How about a new thought for once?
From the people who quote the Bible ad nauseam as if it’s all new.
I’m just challenging you to say something, ANYTHING that contributes some information that advances the geopolitical knowledge being presented, or supports an instructive narrative that may not be apparent to readers.
The Bible doesn’t do that. It drags humanity back to where science was unknown and tribal hatreds ruled the world.
Whaaaa, my Bible doesn’t give me carte blanche to insult people anymore…
Find a street corner to shake your fist and shout at the Universe, it ain’t working here.
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A good companion piece is a shocking development — PBS actually allowed John Mearsheimer on the News Hour where he obliterated the Ukraine is winning narrative. The fact that PBS felt obliged to actually have an informed voice on air instead of regurgitating the propaganda of Michael Kofman is a sign that the worm is turning in the Washington swamp.
No, it’s a sign that the PTB have decided it’s time to change the official narrative. The controlled opposition is leading the way to the New Narrative. Tucker, Mearsheimer, and others are getting support from established institutions that are still controlled by the same people that controlled them last week, last year, and so on.
Ya, they’ll move a half-step towards the truth and claim Mission Accomplished.
Still a bastion of mis-dis info, time waster for any who want the truth.
A time to be wary and keep one’s guard up.
… The PTW . Powers That Were…
Nope. The real power is where it has been, they’re just changing the masks.
With this , it is turtles all-the-way-down ad they say in India.
The PTW are too stupid to survive.
Avdeevka — queen sits on the home row. YES!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k0jReeAe3do
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Here is a great 45 second clip of a Ukrainian officer telling squirming news heads in Kiev that the Russians are much stronger and advancing everywhere and we need a new plan.
https://www.bitchute.com/channel/nnwlaOOuDM1W/
That’s not a link to that video, but Simplicius’ BitChute channel. Nevertheless, a worthy addition to daily watchlist of anyone interested in the subject.
Adeyevka
Avdeevka is fine (Авдеевка). Avdiivka is Ukrainized name (Авдіївка), because forcing “unique” “Ukrainian” letter “i” everywhere is how one builds a nation.
If you can pronounce Guaido without stumbling, then Avdeevka is fine but for the 90% of Americans that can’t, Avdeyevka will do.
Do you know the pronunciation rule about the second e?
Does anyone know why there’s a k in ‘I don’t know”?
Its always nice to pronounce words as they’re pronounced in their native tongue, unless you’re a Brit reading Don Quickset or watching old Hyacinth Bucket reruns, of course 😉
Since my native tongue is of Slavic variety, I have more lingual problems with Worcestershire sauce than Chicken Kiev.
Speakin’ of Mericans and Avdeevka, here is one sticking a flag into other, and blabbering something:
https://twitter.com/simpatico771/status/1761417426149724420
P.S. In Russian Авде́евка second e is fist e, but it’s only relevant for fans of Russian reversal, and those that pronounced Mariupol and Azovstal properly back in the day when sticking flags into them was in vogue.
Old Hyacinth
I had to google that British Hyacinth, and it turns out to be nothing like the Soviet one.
Ha, ha, ha, as my dad would have said, “If bullshit was music, these guys would be a college marching band”. And you’re correct, Shag Smith is getting a little long in the tooth…….
Another GREAT interview with Nima. Here he interviews Paul Craig Roberts. If you haven’t heard it this, it is very informative and spot on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6MwGYn5GUc
Thanks for the link.
Many topics are touched upon at the same time and clearly analyzed
Paul Craig Roberts… still trying to be relevant? He (and Chomsky before his dotage took over) can’t shake the sheep-dog role. Like Giraldi that the Judge has on for “counterpoint”.
More than a few grains of salt required.
I see the truth has set off “Any Person” again…. It’s a sure sign we are right on target.
PCR is a Reagan hold-over. Y’know, the OTHER senile President.
And PCR is a long-time member of the self-identified right-wing Hoover Institution, which has firm connections to the American Enterprise Institute. Condi Rice Rice too… WarmongersRus much?
Just the facts folks…
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/hoover-institution/
So ya, readers might want to know where PCR hails from.
I enjoy his perspective, but I think he’s a little naive sometimes.
Here he is saying “why didn’t Hisbollah go all in at the start?” forgetting that if they did they would find their families in South Beirut turned into ash.
He castigates Putin for not going all in too. But Putin is playing a cautious game that involves keeping the Global South onside.
The world is not as simple as PCR imagines.
Ah, the musical Or-FAH-lay-a.
Yep, I got it. He had me in stitches 😉
It is amazing how all those “Ukraine can win” shills have zero arguments to back up their utterly false narrative and all they do is propagate some wishful thinking rather than having a rational and sound discussion. They are very well aware that they would instantly lose a debate and that is the reason they simply state some BS without any backing, without any discussion about it. All they do is project their wishful thinking that in no way corresponds to what actually goes on on the ground.
If Ukraine lost only about 30’000 men and has destroyed whole Russian armies, how come they still loose territory and have to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people for the 20’th time or so? They should be in Moscow by now … yes, it’s either that or someone is not telling the truth one would guess.
Americans only back winning team
It is psychological
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Maybe Zelensky should start lobbying the Salvation Army now, with better luck.
When you have a slogan to repeat you don’t need to think. These folks lacked the creativity to even come up with their own slogan. They receive it from others and shall repeat it ad nauseam until the Party gives them a new slogan.
I hear that next week’s slogan is “Baa baa baa”.
Now, they are offering to fight China if the U.S. asks. Truly a delusional bunch of ass-clowns.
https://www.rt.com/russia/593062-ukraine-ready-war-china-us/
Doesn’t Zelensky know that’s how Saakashvili ended up in a prison mental ward for offering and then sending his troops to fight in Afghanistan?
Hi Larry,
do you have this video in your collection?
it might amuse you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuo88quGAsI
The video of the Matt Orfalea piece, I can consider a frameable object. Hang that one on the wall and laugh for decades to come. Geraldo Rivera, Who should really go back to searching a tunnel system in Chicago, taking about Ukraine is winning, is the cherry on the cake.
Thank you Larry.
Another stupid boondoggle brought to you by Neocon, Inc.
I don’t think that Ukraine can hold out till after the November elections.
Who was the woman in the PBS interview? Sadistic eye candy blonde pushing for attacking Russia, for fucks sake, does she even no what’s she’s saying?
John Mearsheimer was consistent in his points and did a great job even though they had a 2:1 advantage. PBS on point for once in a long long time. Hopefully this is the start of reality settling in.
Its very easy to join the rah-rah cheer squad for a war when you won’t be putting on the boots to march to the front. Watch how quickly she’d be demanding a diplomatic solution if she had her skin in the game.
If Washington experienced some incoming like Kiev or Gaza, perhaps folks like her might adjust their attitudes. Until that happens, I expect the US to continue their policy of making war wherever Wall St directs.
Her disgusted, angry look at the end of the program suggests to me that she knew John whipped their butts. I could be wrong and projecting my own view.
What was to whip? It would’ve been like trying to whip a gallon of 1% milk into butter. He basically just ignored them, simply throwing in an ‘I disagree’ out of courtesy.
“Who was the woman in the PBS interview?”
She’s the wife of a tall blond Chad and the mother of their five children. I’ll salute her for that. Why she’s on television shilling bad foreign policy is anyone’s guess.
Rebecca Heinrichs Biography:
https://www.hudson.org/experts/1054-rebeccah-l-heinrichs
I bet you also salute Ursula von der Leyen.
Larry, the ORF video is priceless 🤣
It is impossible to defeat nuclear powers militarily !!! You can inflict human, material and financial damage on them. But this comes at a high price for the West. The Western populations will have to be forced into a fascist regime in order to prevent the impoverished people from taking action against the governments. And it is precisely these efforts that are currently becoming highly visible in the West.
In the end, Russia will create infrastructure, jobs, social services, cities, a healthcare system, etc. in Ukraine like the surviving Ukrainians have never seen before. The most loyal citizen is “the full stomach”. The biggest problem for Russia and especially in Ukraine will be the demographic problem. It will take at least several decades. But it is also planned in these time dimensions. There is always talk of it costing Russia huge sums of money. But on the other hand, building up the country will also create jobs and income, as well as a productive economy. Russia can see the additional raw materials and fertile soil as capital.
Yes, the West can leave “scorched earth” in Ukraine, which represents a major challenge for Russia. But it also opens up opportunities for Russia.
What is driving the West crazy is that the BRICS+, the SCO, the EAEU and increasingly the “global South” are trying to find a win-win relationship and there are many examples of progress being made. The patient diplomacy of China and Russia is paying off. At the same time, the West has isolated itself from these developments.
Arctic? How many icebreakers are available or even planned in the USA? Will the USA be able to finance Arctic projects in the future? Especially since the end of fiat money (USD) seems inevitable?
In the course of globalization, industry and production disappeared from the West. And with it, entire professions. It is not enough to reindustrialize. You also need enough qualified personnel. In addition, a targeted deindustrialization is taking place in the West. In Russia and China, as well as in the “global South”, the trend is exactly the opposite. Real values are being produced there. The West can try to build or produce bridges, machines or other innovative material assets with money and shares.
A healthy economy needs an intact and modern infrastructure. Anyone in the West can see the reality of this in their own country.
Today, more ambitious and motivated engineers and scientists graduate from universities in Russia and China than in the West. This will put the economies of these countries even further into the fast lane. This, in conjunction with urbanization and infrastructure development in Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and the Arctic. This means that graduates will also find jobs. Universities and colleges in the West are increasingly wasting their time destroying science and promoting insane ideologies. Technologically, there are already signs that the West is losing markets.
You get the impression that only idiots are being produced in schools in the West. Child geniuses are being molded into stupid zombies. What future can such societies have?
In addition to production, raw materials and energy are the two other pillars of successful economies. Where are these two “pillars” geographically?
I predict that Western entrepreneurs will come to love the locations of the “enemy”.
The double standards and hypocrisy of the West are increasingly isolating it in the world. Disgust at the moral decay in the West is growing rapidly. Oh, there is also exploitation, oppression and poverty in the BRICS+ and in the so-called “global South”. In some cases the most abject poverty. But with economic success there are also opportunities to overcome these conditions in a few generations. I very much hope so.
Thanks Larry, that was a great three clips, finally some sense on PBS, ORF was hilarious and as usual I look forward to every talk with you and the Judge.
Very grateful for all your work.
Medvedev said a few times UKraine will end this way.
Just imagine the scheming going on in Sproutsville, Berlin, Warsaw, Bucharest, Budapest!
Yup, the Brits and the City of London did it all, right? Flappy Ears and Bojo the Clown are the braintrust behind it.
Or more likely… The Rothschilds…
That was just trolling. Kiev will be Russian.
“Just trolling”? And your know better?
Yes.
Anyone with basic knowlege of the region does. Poland can’t get that much even in their wettest dreams, not to mention that Molodova won’t be surviving this.
Vinnytsia being shown as Romanian proves it’s not meant seriously.
Ben Gurion Canal as a cause for this Jewish 9/11, dovetailed into NEOM-the futuristic city in western Saudi Arabia. How does Andrei get away with his babyfaced photo, that skin does not belong to a cigar chompin spirits imbiber:)
We used laugh at Reichsminister Goebbels. Now we are him.
Baghdad Bob more like it. How soon they forget.
https://x.com/David_vanH/status/1760611450651803927?s=20
french independent journalist investigated the atmosphere in Odessa… Kiev conscript militias days are numbered I guess. Partisan attack are on the uptick. A van with two Right sector gunmen exploded and a factory of drones in Lviv was burned down. I guess the second front will be as merciless as the main one
Odessa will return to Russia, soon. The population have seen the lies and BS and are now moving, slowing against the Nazi regime. When they see cemeteries with thousands of dead Nazi soldiers, they know the truth.
Well here it comes the great requisition, Bruno La Mairie, French Minsiter of Economy, has just stated that they are discussing at gante ( Belgium ) how to get some thousands of millions of European people´s savings that should be put to work to finance their “climate change transition”, “artifical intelligence development”, and “defense spending”…..that is sending all of our savings to the US, along with our industry and budgets, through Ukraine black hole…
https://t.me/espiritutemplario/79508
That is, we must finance our own ruin..One wonders what they will take when all of our savings have gone through the kitchen pipe in Ukraine, ruinous renovable energy and the artificial intelligence panopticon to watch us all 24/7/365 ( not going to protest about this robbery…) I guess it will be our propierties, to be sold to BlackRock at pennies, to get more cash which then will be diverted again to BlackRock in Ukraine…
That is the way BlackRock will own everything in 2028…I was wondering how they would do it, robbing us all of everything we own after working hard through decades….Otherwise, how?
We are being submitted to a “fall of the USSR” in slow motion, with robbery of our savings to be put in practice next, once drained the EU budget to Ukraine …increasing its velocity as we talk, to finance US remaining imperialism…
This is what they understand at the WEF as “capitalism of interested parties” and “public-private partnership”, in which private corporations and hedge funds work with public capital and taxpayers´ savings without any guarantee of returning the investment…as happened during the 2008 banking crisis and banks rescues with national budgets….
We must get out into the streets along the farmers and fishers to stop this robbery…
Problem is, urban voters like this WEF menu.
Farmers, fishers, plumbers, mechanics, drivers, engineers, scientists??, do not.
Sorry, the WTF! menu.
You mean the Rothschild Great Reset menu. “you will own nothing”
Credit where credit is due.
C’mon, say it bonbon… “it’s all the Brits and the City of London”…
The WWE menu. It’s all kayfabe.
Thank you Musk, thank you Meloni… too bad your help was of no avail.
“Officials in Moscow said the abandoned hardware was found by Russian assault groups that entered the Avdeevka Coke and Chemical plant, the largest facility of its kind in Europe, which became the linchpin of Ukraine’s defenses in the area after the start of the conflict in February 2022.
The ministry said that while inspecting the plant’s workshops, Russian assault teams discovered abandoned drone control stations with Starlink terminals, dozens of NATO-made anti-tank grenade launchers, ammunition, hand grenades, automatic weapons, and dry rations.
”All this was left behind by Ukrainian soldiers as they fled the plant in panic under the onslaught of Russian troops,” the statement said.
The video shared by the ministry shows Russian soldiers walking on the premises of the heavily damaged chemical plant. Another clip features one service member examining a box of communications equipment, including a relay station.
The video also shows a crate stuffed with frag shells for a grenade launcher and a metal container filled with 12.7 machine gun rounds with an inscription reading ‘Ministerio della Difesa’, an apparent reference to their Italian origin.”
The times they really are a changin’. Not only was Mersheimer on PBS, his partner in crime Stephen Walt was interviewed by NPR for Weekend Edition.
Having won against Russia, Ukraine is ready for more challenges!
Iran, North Korea and China, be afraid!
“Kiev is ready to assist the US in a war against any enemy, be it Iran, North Korea, or China, a senior Ukrainian MP has said, claiming that his country would prove to be a valuable military ally.
\In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Friday, Aleksey Goncharenko doubled down on calls for the US to send Ukraine more military aid amid gridlock in Congress. “[The] United States of America told [us that] we will be with you ‘as long as it takes.’ Now it’s time to keep the promises.”
Goncharenko rebuked US politicians for focusing too much on the looming 2024 presidential election, saying Ukraine should not be a “victim” of this. He also claimed that supporting Ukraine serves Washington’s interests regardless of who wins the race for the White House.
In the event of a future war, the Americans “will need people who will stand shoulder to shoulder with them,” but not many nations would be willing to go all-in to support the US, the lawmaker said.
Interesting how this scoundrel lazy Ukrainian parliamentarian with highly likely criminal charges for the Odessa masacre offers his nationals as easily disposable meat for every US/NATO war around the world, he, who does not know what is a wet and frozen trench, or losing a limb in a battle against a superior opponent, or any economic hardship, as he continues getting his monthly suculent payment, plus diets for to freely travelling around Europe, from EU hardworking taxpayers…….
Wondering when this kind of “personages” will be targetted… by Interpol, or whomever….
Mike Pompeo says: “It just gives me goose bumps when I think of having so many fascist SS troops at our disposal.
How ingrained is the UKraine Bandera SS collaborator psyche – of course they will hire themselves out to NATO where ever it goes.
Goncharenko father in law worked for Gazprom and was able to loan him $700,000
Endless war for endless peace is Uncle Sams motto. God bless America for keeping the world safe for democracy… One dead Palestinian, goat herder, gook at a time.
well Sean Penn said so…how desperate and foolish
Thanks for the UKraine will win video
I have paid zero attention to the blob so it was quite a revelation to see the extent of the malarkey
Sean Penn fades near Boris Karloff –
frankeNATOstan married the EU, with fresh Swedish and Finnish brains stitched in, after Macron said NATO was brain-dead.
Still a “mockery of a human soul still more monstrous”. Chap 21.of original Shelley book.
‘Macron said NATO was brain-dead.’
When I hear the Stoltenburger speaking, I understand what inspired Macron’s, for once, very astute comment. When the Generals get in front of a mic, we observe all the intellect of a zombie apocalypse.
Great post. It appears that the US ‘establishment’ is having a ‘come to Jesus moment’ on Ukraine.
See- Hard Lessons Make for Hard Choices 2 Years into the War in Ukraine-
Western sanctions haven’t worked. Weapons from allies are running low. Pressure may build on Kyiv to seek a settlement, even from a weakened position. By Steven Erlanger & David E. Sanger NYT Feb. 24, 2024;
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/world/europe/lessons-choices-war-in-ukraine.html
One of the authors of this piece- David Sanger is chief Washington correspondent for the ‘paper of record’- NYT and also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR; https://www.cfr.org/), whose members include corporate executives, bankers, and other representatives of the financial elite.
The MofA also had an excellent piece on Ukraine this morning (See- https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ukraine-can-no-longer-win-it-in-fact-neve-had-a-chance-in-the-first-place.html#more).
Is there anything that the NWO foot soldiers, the neocons, touch that does not turn into excrement?
Exactly 2 years ago, a border guard realized that something is very wrong.
What value do these habitual liars see in telling us that Ukraine is winning or the sun will rise from the West, when sooner or later it will rise from the East.
I guess when someone is bankrupt, they will cannibalize everything. In this case, their barely remaining credibility.
The largely unknown story of the first Ukrainian refugees in Britain – an entire SS division composed largely of Ukrainians who arrived in 1947, with many later emigrating to Canada – the 14th SS Galizien. Why did the British Government permit them to settle, and why are they today considered national heroes in Ukraine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_Gs-0dhOo
I was at school with some of their children
Speaking of which I just witnessed a Ukie outing to a public protest
They were warehoused for the planned war with USSR in 1952 but Korea intervened
I would like to remind you that Medvedev is Deputy Chairman of the Security Council. If he were to say things in office or as a private individual in his “trolling” that contradict the interests of the Russian leadership, he would no longer be in this position. Now the only question is, are they just empty warnings to the West or will Russia really act? Many people around the world are hoping that Russia will act sooner rather than too late. I am observing this growing mood. Especially since the genocide in Gaza.
Dmitri Anatoljewitsch Medwedew:
“Some time ago I wrote here in my TG-channel: “A nuclear power cannot lose a war”. Immediately the snot-nosed Anglo-American suckers jumped out screaming, “No, not at all, even the US has lost wars”. That’s an outright lie. I wasn’t talking about Vietnam, Afghanistan, or the dozens of other places in which the Americans fought colonial wars of conquest. I was writing about historical Wars in which the defense of one’s Fatherland takes place. Your land, your people, your values. This is the kind of war that nuclear powers have never lost to anyone.
Why am I writing about this again? I read the words of all kinds of pistoriuses and shapps and think: are they really such assholes or are they just pretending to be? “The world cannot afford a Russian victory in this war.” How’s that? Here’s how.
Okay. Let’s imagine for a moment that Russia lost and “Ukraine and its allies” won. What for our enemies – the neo-Nazis with their Western sponsors – would be such a victory? Well, as it has been said many times, a return to the borders of 1991. That is, the direct and irreversible collapse of the current Russia, which constitutionally includes the new territories. And then a furious civil war with the final disappearance of our country from the world map. Tens of millions of victims. The death of our future. The collapse of everything in the world.
And now the main question: do these idiots really believe that the people of Russia will swallow such a division of their country? That we will all think along the lines of, “Well, alas, it happened. They won. The present Russia has disappeared. It is a pity, of course, but we have to go on living in a collapsing, dying country, because a nuclear war is much more terrible for us than the death of our loved ones, our children, our Russia…”? And that the leadership of the state headed by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in such a case will shake their hand to make the hardest decisions?
That’s the way it’s gonna be. It will be very different. The collapse of Russia will have much more terrible consequences than the results of an ordinary, even the most protracted war. Because attempts to return Russia to the borders of 1991 will lead to only one thing. To the global war with the western countries with application of all strategic arsenal of our state. Kiev, Berlin, London, Washington. On all other beautiful historical places, which have long been included in the flight targets of our nuclear triad.
Will we have the guts for this if the disappearance of a thousand-year-old country, our great homeland, is at stake, and the sacrifices made by the people of Russia over the centuries will be in vain?
The answer is obvious.
So we’d better get it all back before it’s too late. Or we’ll return it ourselves with maximum losses for the enemy. Like Avdeevka. Our soldiers are heroes!”
….
“On the new sanctions timed for 24/02
We have gotten used to their endless restrictions and have learned to live with them.
But what I want to draw attention to today: these bans are no longer directed against the authorities or businesses in the country, as our opponent likes to say. They are taken against the entire population of Russia. For example, the ban on the Mir payment system and restrictions on the activities of companies involved in the construction of housing in the country.
The reason is clear – the worse it is for the citizens of Russia, the better it is for the Western world. Let them all suffer there.
We should just remember this and take revenge on them wherever we can.
They are our enemies.
Create possible difficulties in the economy, stir up public discontent with the ineffective policy of the Western authorities, develop and promote international solutions that infringe on the interests of the Western world. To do this constantly, systematically and as openly as possible.
And also to carry out other activities on their territory, about which it is not customary to speak publicly.
A war is like a war.
And in this war, victory will be ours!”
https://t.me/medvedev_telegram/453
Thatcher kept Buenos Aires as a target to remind Washington which was run by Jeanne Kirkpatrick against London…….,,Caspar Weinberger ran policy in favour of London from DoD
Meanwhile Israel aided Argentina and Mitterand was very aligned with London
And London planted nuclear mines nearby, while D.C. sent a nuke sub.
The Belgrano was tip-of-the-iceberg.
Yes, it is good to keep up with Dmitrii Anatolyevich Medvedev
medvedev_telegram as he gives a less diplomatic look at the orientation of opinion within the top levels of RF gov’t, IMO.
Want to add his message from yesterday to the two you posted, the first from 18 Feb, and the one from today.
This is from yesterday, 23 February, Defenders of the Fatherland Day:
“Today we celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day. Congratulations on the holiday to all those who faithfully serve Russia, protect the peaceful and prosperous life of millions of citizens. Loyal to the high ideals of patriotism, readiness to defend the Motherland at any moment – our enduring values, the basis of today’s achievements and future victories.
I offer words of deep gratitude to all those who serve, volunteers, and specialists of all the various professions who are participating in a special military operation. They give tough and unconditional rebuff to the enemy, protect people in our historic territories, fight courageously and heroically. We are proud of the exploits of the heroes of Mariupol, Popasnaya, Lisichansk, Artyomovsk, Avdeyevka – all those who bring our final victory over the neo-Nazis closer. We bow our heads to the blessed memory of the fallen.
I wish all the defenders of the Fatherland, their families and friends good health, success in serving Russia and all the best!”
This is also of importance for those behind the OTANistan curtain. It reinforces the seriousness of his message of today. Consider re-reading it in Heikomr’s post after reading the above. This message is not new, these sentiments have expressed before by VVP, Shoigu, and many others.
The psyop’d people of OTANistan are used to their gauleiters belching, bloviating, hysterically, changing positions quicker than their soiled Depends undergarments.
That is not how RF leadership works. Best to pay attention and they are serious people and mean what they say.
Yesterday may have a corresponding holiday in US calendar, Memorial Day in May,but the meaning of Defenders of the Fatherland Day is deeper, more immediate in RF. The depth of feeling felt for that day at its inception in 1868 and immediately after WWII has faded in US.
Defenders of the Fatherland Day is different than the March of the Immortal Regiment. The March of the Immortal Regiment, May 9, since 2012 in RF commemorates those who died, were murdered by deutshcer-nazis in The Great Patriotic War (as distinguished from the Patriotic War of 1812 – Napoleon’s Invasion).
Not doing much in gaza, syria, Lebanon, Iraq. Just like US goads and helps and arms Ukraine . I don’t see Russia doing anything remotely close to what US is doing.
Sure I see some very cautious steps in Syria, some good intentions in Iran. That’s it.
Russia has a good chance to return in kind same treatment to US and it’s ally in middle East but it doesn’t go beyond some good natured statements.
Maria Zakharova :
German Foreign Minister Baerbock: “None of us believed when we started imposing sanctions that it would stop the invasion. It’s just that sanctions are important.”
As the saying goes, none of them thought a 360 turn would lead to a change of course, it’s just important.
…
Now THAT is the definition of spin – 360 degrees!
All MSM will now do whirling dervish dances, with Baerbock’s batton.
The whirling dervishes were founded by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207-1273), known to his followers as Mevlana, ‘our master’, and they flourished in Turkey until 1926, when they were suppressed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Baerbock is another version of Greta Thunberg
Greta never finished school, got a Nobel Prize in Theology recommendation from Helsinki,
At least Baerbock did a London School of Economics degree….
Both together with Ursula and Kallas are King Charles III’s Ladies-in-Waiting.
Hmm, not much of an ad for the London School of Economics. At least by jigging school, St Greta has an excuse for her ignorance of science and math.
https://youtu.be/nxNMj2eHGs8?feature=shared
Ukraine will win because we will redefine winning to mean that Russia does not occupy the entire country (something Putin never wanted).
In all seriousness here is my view of a total Russian victory
Russia keeps the two Oblasts that they annexed (three if you count Crimea)
Russia adds the Kharkiv and Odessa Oblasts, this would be a super victory.
The rump state of Ukraine never joins NATO.
“Ukraine will win because we will redefine winning”
Yep.
Ukraine will be an impoverished rump state full of widows and the USA will call it a win.
In all seriousness, Ukrainan national anthem says: “The glory of Ukraine has not yet perished, nor the will.” Not perishing yet is victory in their book.
Your oblast-math is off. It’s four plus Crimea, and Odessa has to be a package deal with Nikolaev (and bonus Transnistiria, and maybe Gagauzia). Once the cutting knife is out, everyone gets cut or a cut.
A repost from MOA:
I’ve stated here that this idea that the SMO ends before 2025/2026 is erroneous.
It’s a nice picture, but not realistic. Regardless of all these “analysts”, Ukraine is hardly on any verge of “collapse”.
They continue to be well funded, and ammunition & HIMAR ammo will be substituted by more lethal and longer ranged weapons.
They will withdraw their forces to a defensive position, continuing to lose more and more territory, but that too will cost more Russian lives, and they will continue the war, peppered with terror attacks here and there. They will receive the F16s and the whole SMO will continue to escalate to the finality of a NATO war operation openly, which is where it was always going to end up.
Russia did a good job prolonging the confrontation and is well armed and all the t’s crossed for mass mobilization,
But anyone here thinking Ukraine is on “last keg” , is living in a dream world. Recruits are already being filled by mass NATO sheep dipped “mercenary” personnel, and will continue to be, the F16 pilots coming, are NATO trained pilots. They will get the funds they need to force another mass forced conscription, ability to uniform, give 2 week training & throw another 500,000 in the meat trenches (yes, they can draw again from the population well they have).
Yes, this current “line of contact” and warfare is buckling, It will be overrun and Ukraine will continue withdrawals.
But it can’t be more obvious that there will be no surrender or capitulation from Ukraine. In addition, it can’t be more obvious with UK & US that they intend to bring NATO in using runways of some nation to bomb the interior of Russia.
Some would say: “fine, let NATO get slaughtered too then”,
Or say: “no they wouldn’t, cuz “NATO” is a farce, they ain’t got nothing “… look at Ukraine… did that matter? Does that matter now? No, they keep upping the threat. The longer range weapons to blow the Crimean bridge up is coming, the F16s and their crews are coming, the longer range ATCAMS are coming…
“Last leg” …their legs or no leg doesn’t matter, until their heads are blown off this gets worse.
If not worse, extracts and bleeds Russia another 18 months if Russia continues the attrit. They say they calculated for 36 months, we’re at 24… we’ll see.
You could be right. Definitely maybe. Or it could unravel for them very quickly.
Lots of “mercenaries” are dying at the moment. I doubt they will be able to keep that up for long.
The war will not end until “the parasites” have sucked us all dry of our savings and there is nothing left to be robbed.
That is what parasites of any species do, suck the parasitized dry, and then change to a new host….The Russians refused to be parasitized this time…
In a peace escenario there will not be any alibi to rob the people of their savings and propierties….
They need war to terminate the state of law and any remaining right and wealth in the hands of the middle and working classes.
That is called “reset” by them, an euphemism for the huguest and more openly done trasvase of wealth from the working classes to the parasite class in the world history.
It depends on us, whether we will allow such robbery, of the product of our hard effort through decades, like they did Soviet people, or we will risk defending what is ours and our nations from the general plundering at work here….
We are more, we are billions…..
We will chose life…..
https://youtu.be/7HXBz3-oERM?feature=shared
choose life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q27InlH8I0
Yeah, we choose…..
https://youtu.be/sFaL03SKEzE?feature=shared
“se sentía amenazante para un humano”…
“it felt threatening to a human”…
“eto kazalos’ ugrozoy dlya cheloveka”…
Excellent post. Considerations-
1) The Pentagon has not ‘won’ a war since 1945. Despite ‘investing’ > $21 trillion of American taxpayer money on post-911 militarization (See- https://www.bu.edu/pardee/research/20-years-of-war-a-costs-of-war-research-series/) the US faces military/strategic debacles stretching from Horn of Africa, Levant, West Asia to Central Europe. Not only have these conflicts been astronomically expensive, they have vividly revealed the limits of US military power to the global community.
2) The political class and corporate media have taken a page from Joseph Goebbels- ‘If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.’ (See: Joseph Goebbels: On the “Big Lie”; https://www.jewishvirtuallibrar y.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot).
3) Micheal Coffman and Rebeccah Heinrichs along with most commentators on CNN and other corporate media outlets are ignorant morons, with no understanding of Russia’s attritional military strategy. They function as shills for the Pentagon, and large military contractors- Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and other military contractors (See: The Top 10 Defense Contractors Bloomberg Government June 21, 2023; https://about.bgov.com/top-defense-contractors/).
4) The Biden Administration has made Ukraine their ‘signature’ war and is desperate to avoid an encore performance of the 2 decade-long/$2 trillion campaign in Afghanistan. No doubt, they are becoming increasingly apoplectic regarding the bleak prospects of passage of their $60 billion taxpayer-funded aid package for Ukraine. The problem is that after expending so much human/financial capital, the Pentagon is incapable of extricating itself from these conflicts as doing so is an admission of failure and by extension military weakness.
5) The US ruling elite are pursuing an increasingly bellicose, reckless and dangerous foreign policy, in an attempt to counter the accelerating decline of late-stage American capitalism, whose survival is contingent on continuous debt-monetization (aka money printing), going on since 2009. This has led to an explosion of debt- US govt debt >$ 34 trillion while levels of corporate, municipal and consumer debt are all at record levels (https://www.usdebtclock.org/) and threatening the role of the dollar as world reserve currency, which has served as a central pillar of post-WWII US economic power. Unfortunately, [nuclear-armed] empires in decline do not always behave rationally. Precarious times ahead.
Larry, for some reason on your channel, and no other channel, videos are automatically launching for me, and there always seems to be one that launches an independent audio track that does not stop from the controls on the videos. Given how many vids you’re posting, perhaps you’d look into this.
Which Browser, Autoplay off?
This problem is in your browser settings, not the website. Find the settings for your browser and disable ‘autoplay.’ Some browsers alowl customizing settings for individual websites, others only globally. May need, or find easier, to download an add-on for the browser to do this for you. Good luck, it is irritating!
Thanks, I’ll check it out- didn’t know there were individual settings for sites in the browsers. It just started two days ago, though, and I know I haven’t changed anything in my browser, and it doesn’t appear to affect any other site. I’ll check, though,
There’s no such thing in MS Edge.
Don’t use Edge, but it is chromnium based, so might be an add-on.
Check these fixes:
https://www.howtogeek.com/742638/how-to-stop-videos-from-automatically-playing-in-microsoft-edge/
majorgeeks(dot)com/content/page/how_to_enable_or_disable_media_autoplay_in_microsoft_edge.html
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-enable-or-disable-media-autoplay-in/c0aacdb5-10bc-485b-b40e-bdcbeb718257
elevenforum(dot)com/t/enable-or-disable-media-autoplay-for-websites-in-microsoft-edge.15270/
This add-on in the MS add-on site will stop autoplay if the site uses HTML5, might be others, but you can check for them:
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/angamhlikfokpbmfppadnnbmflollmnc
Thanks! The second one seems to handle it- apparently my setting was in the middle, and I’ve been here enough times that it decided to autolaunch media files. Should be good now.
Until the next ‘update’ (laughing!).
The war is going into its critical phase. Russia should be able to blow through Ukriane this year (2024). But there is some discussion Russia may extend the finale until 2025. Hard to know but the rest of the world wants to see a NATO Ukriane defeat. And this WILL happen it’s just when and how.
I watch zero msm… it is truly shocking to see the lemmings spew lies and how many people still buy into it
PBS newshour, of course Mearsheimer was right on, but the host said all out Russian invasion 🤡 And the guy and gal guests are obviously tactical & operational & strategic geniuses and they should immediately fly to Ukraine to direct the Ukrainian general staff coordinating with NATO/US. With those two, the only question is when Putin will surrender and flee to North Korean 🥸
I never watch the mainstream, but shrinking, news organizations, so it was unique in my experience to listen to the two people accompanying John Mearsheimer. I am familiar with John’s position but not the two others. They sound good and confidant but John was an excellent “lawyer” in his counter-arguments. John Mearsheimer 3; PBS News ‘Warm Bodies’ 0.
This song kinda explains where I think the answer is:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d404PeooWl8&pp=ygUSbG92ZSBpcyB0aGUgYW5zd2Vy
normally is a common agreement that russian army is fighting using the Clausewitz theory but:
Opposed to Prussia’s enforced alliance with Napoleon, Clausewitz left the Prussian army and served in the Imperial Russian Army from 1812 to 1813 during the Russian campaign, taking part in the Battle of Borodino (1812). Like many Prussian officers serving in Russia, he joined the Russian–German Legion in 1813. In the service of the Russian Empire, Clausewitz helped negotiate the Convention of Tauroggen (1812), which prepared the way for the coalition of Prussia, Russia, and the United Kingdom that ultimately defeated Napoleon and his allies.[7]
what if the flow of ideas was in reverse from Russian army to Clausewitz?