And the Western media train ride to crazy town continues to hurtle down the tracks and does not realize the bridge over the River Dnieper has vanished. That is the best poetic imagery I could conjure up tonight to try to capture that pathology of so-called journalists to publish nonsense. A new meme emerged today — the Wagner Group is being wiped out.
Take a look at Shannon Vavra doing Deep State stenography for the Daily Beast:
Tens of thousands of fighters rounded up to fight in Ukraine for Wagner Group , the Russian private mercenary fighting corps, have gone missing or died, according to a Russian non-governmental organization. . . .
The statistic cited is just the latest indication that Wagner’s fighting force is falling apart in Ukraine, even as Russia works to secure wins on the battlefield almost one year after the invasion of Ukraine.
Wagner Group fighters have been involved in the heavy fighting in Soledar in recent weeks, a town in which Russia has claimed victory. Wagner has also been largely responsible for gains made in Bakhmut nearby, “at an extraordinary cost,” given that many of the Wagner recruits had minimal training since Wagner recruited 40,000 convicts, John Kirby, a White House National Security Council coordinator, told reporters last week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hinted at the dramatic losses the Russians are sustaining in Soledar in a recent speech as well.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2900347444966/russia-s-elite-shadow-army-edges-into-complete-collapse?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=i3
Unlike Baghdad Bob, President Zelensky is being enabled by a host of Western government leaders and media pundits as he clings tenaciously to the belief that Ukraine still controls Soledar. But the reality displayed on the following map tells a different story:
“The headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR announced the liberation of Krasnopolevka.” As you can see on the map, Krasnopolevka is northwest of Soledar. Russia’s Wagner Group is not behaving as a decimated force hemorrhaging personnel. The Russians are moving methodically to envelop the Ukrainian forces in a cauldron and Zelensky continues to insist they are winning. It just dawned on me that Zelensky, as a former comedian, is channeling his inner Monty Python with Ukraine as the Black Knight:
This is a perfect example of art reflecting reality with respect to the Ukrainian military effort. Russian advances are not confined to Bakhmut and Soledar. Russia is expanding its bridgehead in the direction of Seversk (which is north of Soledar) and is attacking the villages of Razdolovka, Nikolaevka, Vesely, Vyemka, and Ivano-Daryevka. An impressive display of combat prowess by a supposedly spent force of ex-convicts.
Not all of the Ukrainian leadership is out of touch with reality:
In this morning’s report, the Ukrainian General staff confirms that Russian fighters have advanced significantly along the Artemivsk-Konstantinovka highway and are storming Predtechino and Stupochek.
To the north of Artemivsk, the assault on Paraskoveyevka and Krasnaya Gora continues. Also, the offensive in the city of Artemovsk itself continues – fighting on the eastern and southern sides of the settlement.
https://t.me/sonar_21/366
Zelensky’s former communications spinmeister, Oleisky Arestovich, also is singing a markedly different tune these days with respect to the Russian Special Military Operation:
After leaving the post of adviser to the Office of the President, Arestovich launched into all serious frankness – he said that the Russian special operation was conceived as a bloodless mission and should have passed without casualties.
“They tried to wage a smart war… Such an elegant, beautiful, lightning-fast special operation, where polite people, without causing any damage to either a kitten or a child, eliminated the few who resisted. And they didn’t even eliminate them, but offered to surrender, switch sides, understand and etc. They didn’t want to kill anyone. Just sign the renunciation.”
https://t.me/sonar_21/365
I am amazed that Arestovich is still alive. Comments like these make him a prominent target for assassination by the Zelensky crowd.
Arestovich is not the only one in hot water. Ukraine’s Defense Minister Reznikov faces an exploding scandal for his extraordinary skill as a retail grocer and generator salesman:
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov — one of the most prominent faces of the war against Russia — is now under fire on the home front as investigations into government corruption rocked the country over the weekend. . . .
Both of the inquiries are related to war profiteering, and triggered an immediate pledge of action from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday night. The case involving the defense ministry involved purchases of military rations at inflated prices — a topic that has snowballed into top news in Kyiv. Almost simultaneously, the deputy infrastructure minister was fired in a case linked to an overpriced public purchase of electrical generators. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine said it was investigating both matters.
https://www.politico.eu/article/defense-minister-reznikov-ukraine-corruption-probe-war-russia-zelenskyy/
The combination of military losses and blatant corruption are consequential and signal the unraveling of the Zelensky government. This bad news comes on the heels of last weeks loss of the Ministry of Interior leadership. There are no wunder waffen waiting in the wings that can salvage Ukraine at this point. Even if German caves and decides to send forty year old “modern” Main Battle Tanks, Ukraine lacks the personnel and time to train a unit of tank operators that can perform competently on the battlefield. But these facts will not stop Zelensky from insisting, “It’s only a flesh wound.”
Probably, the best way to answer the MSM nonsense is this link
https://t.me/sitreports/3689
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◾️I came to thank you for what you did: from myself, from the Motherland.
◾️Yevgeny Prigozhin met at the airport PMC Wagner fighters from among the former prisoners who returned from the special operation zone:
◾️124 people were pardoned after 180 days at the front: they participated in the capture of strongholds in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), in the battles for Pokrovskoye, Klinovoe, Zaitsevo and Kodema. Among them, including those who were in Soledar.
◾️On January 5, it became known that the first group of ex-prisoners who completed a six-month contract with Wagner PMC was leaving the SMO zone.
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124 pardons does not sound all that much. Maybe there really is some truth to the numbers of killed/deserted ex-cons? Desertion does not sound too crazy an idea given that these guys might never get a better chance at “prison break”. Of course, the reports of “tens of thousands recruited convicts” might be inflated on purpose to then show their “decimation” by this kind of numbers?
BTW, are there any (more) reliable numbers of convicts turned mercs?
It sounds like a lot – we are talking about finished 6 months (which means that they started in late June/early July), and at that time they still did not do massive prison recruitment, but it generally just started, plus it was guys that finished that day (you could have similar group tomorrow) and also, it was guys that were already in that place – if someone is 300 km away on different front line, they are probably not going to bring him in to that place.
124 pardons is in a single ceremony at a single point, addressed by Prigozhin (who has many or things to do). As for the number of convicts signing up, it was probably not large in any case because the criteria were strict: no addicts or drug/sex crime convicts need apply, for example. Also it is extremely unlikely that white collar financial criminals would sign up. So the pool was not large to begin with. Not to speak of the not inconsiderable chance that sone institutionalised individuals would rather sign on for another 6 months rather than return to civilian life where they have no non criminal skills.
Prigozhin’ll have to do better than that if he wants to match Zelensky’s recruiting skills.
Ukraine Releases Prisoners With ‘Combat Experience’ To Help Fight Russia 2/28/22
Zelensky said the decision was difficult to make from a moral point of view but was vital “in terms of our protection.”
“These are animals, not people”: Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military
According to a July 11 report in Ukrainian media, Ruslan Onishenko, commander of the now-disbanded Tornado Battalion, was freed as part of President Zelensky’s scheme to release prisoners with combat experience. Along with an unwavering commitment to fascism, Onishenko is known as a psychopathic sadist who was involved in sexually assaulting children, brutally torturing prisoners, and murder.
Onishenko’s release follows a February 27 order by Zelensky to free other convicted former Tornado members like Danil “Mujahed” Lyashuk, a fanatic from Belarus who has openly emulated ISIS and boasted of torturing captives for sheer enjoyment. According to Zelensky‘s decree, prisoners with combat experience would be allowed to “compensate for their guilt” by fighting in the “hottest spots.”
Is there a link for this story?
Byron: Yeah, really! Quotes are nice, but links are far more definitive. And the above is actually excerpts from *two* articles. I can’t place the first, but here’s the second:
“These are animals, not people”: Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/07/30/zelensky-militants-convicted-child-rape-torture-military/
Russian prisons are harsh with stringent discipline. Some of these convicts may have been gang members also with strict codes. Some might have been former soldiers.
I have no doubt that Wagner – formed precisely for the Donbass conflict, where Russia legally could not send the army – must be an extraordinary army corps after 8 years in the Donbass and 6 months in the Bakhmut region! Perhaps even some of the best soldiers in the world, most of them former spestnaz, whom no amount of training or super-equipment can forge because great soldiers are only forged in war.
On the battlefield, even in a semi-official flag corps, far from a mercenary corps as is so often misrepresented in the West! Perhaps of the caliber of the French Foreign Legion or some US private companies and these are hired mercenaries without a US flag. Where they reached such a dimension that today the US is already forced to fight food wars just to deal with the gluttony of these private contractors of men that no state mourns. In the same way, wars are fought to feed the biggest US armament companies, such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman or General Dynamic!
But they certainly cannot be compared to the best US or Russian Special Troops! And this Prigozhin has already proved that he’s a bit smug. Maybe that’s why he’s Wagner’s mouthpiece or frontman. And the same with Kadyrov’s interventions during the conflict?! When not eating some topmodel at home. Characters that have little or nothing to do with the professionalism and usual sobriety of the Russian Army.
And I even understand the use of “Medvedv” in the conflict. And I agreed from the beginning with the integration of the inmates. Which Ukraine so much criticized and even did first. But comparing Soledar, terrible as he’s, with the Queen of all battles of the modern era like Stalingrad with 2 million dead and a terrible siege just shows how far man sometimes strays from reality! Many Russians must not know whether to weep at the insult of history or laugh at ignorance. And I still don’t understand why the Supreme Chief allows this type of role during an armed conflict?!
First of all and however incredible, Wagner has not conquered any territory alone! A somewhat clandestine body of the Russian army because I don’t know of any private company of mercenaries hired with artillery pieces and air force to work in their rear. Not to mention the airborne forces, the tankers and what has undoubtedly been Russia’s great weapon to destroy all bunkers and defense in depth in the open field in the Bakhmut region. The terrible TOS-1 with thermobaric rockets that suck a bunker six feet under! After which Wagner advances! And what battalion of troops within a radius of 20 kms does not withdraw after seeing such firepower against which it can do absolutely nothing? Did someone mention the TOS-1 to the NATO engineers who spent 8 years building all the concrete and steel bunkers and all the deep defense line rings in Donbass? Did they show you a video with all the beautiful and destructive firepower of the good old Buratinos TOS-1A?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q91yFP9E9Yg&t=33s
And the new fully automated TOS-2 version in a more mobile truck was also implemented in Ukraine. To prove that the spirit of Stalin’s Organs with the Katyushas who were the terror of the Nazis did not die! I am convinced that if we all survive this war – that nobody takes it to a nuclear level – we will still see memorials with TOS-1 as the great liberators of Donbass. Like the T-34 and Katyusha memorials. How we also saw the Tupolev bombers liberate Mariupol and Azovstal with the Chechens!
And given the size of the advance of the Russian offensive that we have already begun to see in Zaporizhzhia, which could never have happened before the mobilization, even taking advantage of the relocation of several ukie brigades to die in Bakhmut, we can already say that the Russian winter offensive has already begun! To the disappointment of many who thought they were going to see the end of the world soon with 3 axes working from the beginning. But it is certain that the advance in Zaporizhzhia is being brutal! With Ukraine already very worn out even by the corruption scandals that don’t stop!
The issue with the MSM is not the lies and contradictions that are obvious with a little thought – but the way the MSM outlets like the NYT manipulate people’s emotions so they DON’T think! A good example, cited in my recent article on the NYT’s report on the “attack” on the residential building in Dneipro, is the extreme professionalism used to create a superficially compelling story, starting with evocative and emotion-wringing photos and human interest stories, using ordinary people. Supposedly….
““I have no words, I have no emotions, I feel nothing except a great emptiness inside,” one 23-year-old woman, Anastasiia Shvets, wrote on social media.
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An image of Ms. Shvets from the scene of the attack struck a chord with Ukrainians across the country. It shows a young woman clutching a stuffed animal and a golden Christmas garland as she stands in the ruins and waits to be rescued.
Ms. Shvets somehow emerged with only a small head wound and bruises on her legs. But her parents, she wrote on a verified account on Instagram, were still missing. And her partner, who was serving in the Ukrainian military, was killed in action four months ago.’
Oh my…. and there is the photo. It seems that Ms. Shvets had a professional photographer on the scene to do a beautifully shot photo of her standing in the ruins. How lucky! How convenient. Not someone with a smart phone but with a $10,000 dollar camera — and a photo lab.
After this more stories. More photos. Oh, how awful those Russian monsters!
Then inserts: “The State of the War”. Never mind, that it’s nonsense. Those Russians are monsters so….
Then a list of NYT “investigations”, including the “secret” Russian unit tasked with committing unmentionable atrocities against people with white arm bands. Why would they kill their own? Don’t ask. They are monsters!
This article took a lot of skill, expertise and resources– $$$$$.
My article on it on substack , not so much.
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-nyt-shame
But right after I published this, the NYT came out with even MORE articles of the same type. The NYT is now officially an adjunct of the CIA.
I actually did an episode of my comic strip about the “Wagner is getting wiped out” fantasy.
At this point I no longer have to think up satire to draw, I just have to report what the nazis and their owners say.
In my opinion, this situation is like that time during Vietnam war where US lead a shaky coalition of the willing, with the South Korean faithful hunting dogs, who committed several war crimes, and the unwilling Aussie, to part took in the carnage in Vietnam.
When the soviet weapon and the Slav meat run out, what’s next? NATO-rization of the War of course. Not directly, there will be no declaration of War, just a subtle, unannounced war. The Polish is up next (or at least the political class of Poland, there are rumors that many Polish tank crews resigned and refused to fight in Leopard 2 tank, which will be sent to Ukraine). The crack in NATO is spreading, there are also rumors (unconfirmed) that Hungary is purging the military elites who are NATO inclined. the Baltics might be another candidate, Yesterday, them and Russia downgraded their diplomacy level and ambassadors are going home. Is this a tell sign that the Baltic wanna test their mettle? All in all, the situation is spiraling out of control, and the whole world is sleep walking into a catastrophe. Is there a way out? of course, there is, but that will require compromised from the US side, but will they be able to compromise? let’s just hope there is still somebody with a brain in the US power structure, who will be able to stop this madness.
Believe me as a European, albeit past draft age at 57, very very few if any European males would be willing to fight for the corrupt EU and their Zionist pig-loving American overlords. As the saying goes, NATO will declare war on Russia and no one will show up. This is why they need Slav cannon-fodder to fight their wars, Ukraine first, then Poland with Czech Republic and the Romanians. The Euro elites are very well aware of their dire predicament knowing that many “fifth column groups” will spring up all over Europe fighting with the Russians and their allies against them, the morally corrupt, anti-human, neo-liberal Fascist Euro class. In synthesis, it’s a no win situation for these parasites who have their backs to the wall and are playing their only remaining option: the nuclear doomsday one. It’ll happen like this, once the Russians unleash their full military kinetic might on the EU itself, everything collapses, be it political, military, or economic and it’s game over, Russia wins with the US made to go home tail between its legs.
You wouldn’t be past draft age in Ukraine.
Watch some of the videos here – or even the photo at the end of a man with stumps below his elbows grasping a call up document.
https://southfront.org/war-to-last-ukrainian-as-it-is-violent-handout-of-draft-notices-january-2023-videos/
Yeah, am well aware of the fact and have seen these videos on the December1991 (Simplicius) BitChute channel. What’s not in my favor is that I’m in much better shape at my age than most 30-40 year olds. I could hide out in the Iblean mountains in Sicily for a while I guess.
I hope it doesn’t go that badly for the good people in the EU. An American ex-pat I email is so worried about the war that she moved her daughter, new grandchild, and pets to West Africa from France. Fallout will be bad for children.
I remember reading an article several years ago which showed the results of a poll about Dutch fighting for their country. The poll revealed that only 15% of draft age Dutch males polled would fight to defend their OWN country. I imagine the sentiment is in the ballpark around much of western Europe. The eastern Europeans will have to do all the fighting. You are spot on.
“The eastern Europeans will have to do all the fighting.” The so called WW2 French Resistance was mainly Spaniards. Maybe we should say that anyone who is not Anglo-Saxon will do most of the fighting.
Suspect you err.
Resistance increased once German conscripted labour for work in the Reich and men fled to the forests – hence “Maquis”
The core of the French Resistance was communist
@ Paul Greenwood
Suspect you missed my point.
The Anglo Saxons are communists.
and you don’t know what communism is The Anglo Saxons are capitalists
You also wouldn’t be past draft age in Germany, if they face a “national emergency.” It’s not dafe to assume you are past draft age anywhere in the Western world these days.
The national emergency case will see a lot oft well trained eastern germans using russian weapons to build a new state. GDR 2.00
Draft was only set aside 2011 not abolished
Allied Powers can require it
Not sure many will turn up
Draft was only set aside 2011 not abolished
Allied Powers can require it
Not sure many will turn up anyway
aspettiamo per 11/ 2 al festival della canzone italiana di St. Remo il presidente Zelè le cocò ; chissà che non ripeta la performance di comico con tacchi a spillo con esecuzione al pianoforte “due mani e un cazzo” , il suo pezzo forte le cazzate…
Tempo di finirla col pagliaccio ucraino che si veste con tacchi a spillo e tutù a leopardo e cerca i Leopard per contrastare i russi!!! Inutile come quel oggetto fra le sue gambe.
In my town in Germany, far away form the ukrainian border, I just can see a lot of big cars (mostly SUV’s) with ukrainian numbers. The drivers are always younger men within their draft age. What I’ve heard is that they’ve paid thousands of dollar on the ukrainian border to leave the country.
I don’t know if they are nationalists (or di-hard “Nazis”), but I really doubt that they will go home any time to fight against the Russians. And I also doubt they would go home into their destroyed country if this war would be over next week or so. More than I think they feel like having reached some kind of paradise and the government (not the german alone) does all to let them this believe.
peppe – here yu go
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/george-soros-urged-use-eastern-european-soldiers-reduce-risk-body-bags-nato-countries
regards,
ralph
Zelensky and crew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX68-uzIvI0
Ni!
I am not too sure anyone with cognitive thinking skills give two shits about what’s being reported in western media. The meat grinder that is churning in eastern 404 will produce its own truth; much like the truth about everything surrounding the Covid-1984 nonsense.
I’ve shared and gone through your post from the 15th, “Destroying Monsters,”with several Ukraidiots in my family. The US is on the wrong side of history on this one. That’s a tough pill to swallow for the “thank you for your service,” crowd. A majority of my family are of this mindset.
Run silent. Run deep.
Have they ever been on the right side of history as a hegemon that was responsible for the senseless deaths of millions (sanctions/wars) due to his hegemonic fantasies?
Julius Caesar
“They’ve,” always been on the right side of history as writtten by the victors. The truth is always available, just needs to be uncovered.
Fun test: Ask the question ~ Who defeated the Nazis? Anyone who answers the bankers backing the Reds is the winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Actually surprisingly so many intelligent people believe that on this issue the government is playing straight. They believe it as the media has played the drama out like a soap opera before their eyes and they can’t grasp what they see is not real.
To be fair, this is the most successful propaganda campaign in history so complete is the state control of narrative in the media age.
Yess. The number of people clutching the absurd Baghdad Bob nonsense still shocks me daily. It is like Invasion of the Body Snatchers when I talk to friends now. First I look at their eyeballs to see if they’re darting around nervously.
I now understand what happened in Germany in the 30s. Remember the same sources that told them about WTC7, COVID etc have been telling them about the glorious fight against Russian aggression in the Ukraine. Once a brick comes out of the wall it could all come down.
Belief in the information source is comprehensive and loss of faith could lead to a chain reaction of cognitive dissonance. That explains the irrational holding on.
Exactly–these are people who live in a post-modern world where their “ideas” literally create reality. I am waiting for the cognitive dissonance to cause some talking head’s skull to literally explode on TV, which sadly I will miss, as I no longer watch.
“the most successful propaganda campaign in history”
Nah, it has to at least rank 2nd to the Covid propaganda campaign which got hundreds of millions of Westerners to lock themselves up, engage in interminable mask theatre, and then get injected with diabolically untested and unsafe mRNA technology which has killed large numbers (which the propaganda campaign continues to deny), wreaked massive harm on immunity and fertility which will cause large numbers more of early deaths and failures to bring new babies to term.
Americans like myself share a common enemy with Russia and much of the world and that is *ourselves*.
It doesn’t sound right but the best thing that could happen to us, and to everyone, is to provoke yet another war…and LOSE decisively.
Of all the deficits we run, and there are many, the biggest and most difficult to overcome will be humility. Coming to possess a genuine sense of humility is a lesson much easier to learn than be taught.
And we are *all* about to be taught a lesson we will never forget.
🏆”You’ll soon be one of us!!”🏆
The Meme of the year.
Either Arestovich has CIA’s protection or he has gone nuts, I am guessing former
@Kluzner: I doubt Arestovich has CIA protection enabling him to undermine their narrative by dropping truth bombs. He knows what happens to people who speak out against the Kiev regime. He knows far too much about everything that could be damaging to the EU/West narrative…. and yet he’s still alive. Why?
Why for that matter is Gonzalo Lira, despite being temporarily “disappeared” by the nazis, still able to talk openly against them from Kharkov instead of suffering the fate of all the people taped to poles (and that is if they’re lucky)? It is ridiculous to ascribe it to the protection of the Chilean embassy; no amount of diplomatic “protection” would be enough against a Kraken hit squad.
There is an obvious explanation, and that is that they’re being used as a limited hangout.
mr. Purkayastha good day;
i have wondered about gonazlo also. I know he and scott ritter do not get along; but until there is proof he is not what he says he is will wish him well.
this is his latest. Found duma from the military summary channels comments to be quite interesting since he looks at events from both sides. If yu listen carefully to what he says i think he believes this is a controlled conflict.
The Roundtable #45: The Deteriorating Military Situation in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38FlJTTzpkk
i found these 3 short videos about the state of our modern world to be quite interesting.
Nonlinear warfare: A new system of political control [Adam Curtis] 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggr8zTJsvZA
right click to save
https://zggg98sgwbg1gh.bitchute.com/XxIfgLk2edIe/BPJEph1ZKFUz.mp4
The World Is A Business Mr Beale: The Corporations Rule the World
https://www.bitchute.com/video/li2i0Q7JYiMM/
https://seed122.bitchute.com/D5CgK3OrH773/li2i0Q7JYiMM.mp4
Three Days of the Condor – Ending – this was recently posted by someone on another article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZNnDiDSUiI
business is business
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/over-90-firms-have-remained-russia
a good show about corporate cntrl in the 1 season it is one is this one.
Incorporated (TV Series 2016–2017) – IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4118466/
https://www.amazon.com/Incorporated-Season-1/dp/B01N2OGLKF
i am beginning to believe there is essentially a group of merchants behind the scenes who try to control all sides of all conflicts and do what they can to control the narritive which seems to be shifting again. They do not at any cost want to allow a prosperous worldwide middle class which would could oppose them. For them to stay in control they need constant chaos and limited wars to keep everyone on edge and needing goverment to save them. Unless something changes have to admit i wonder why russia does not end this in the donbass right know with an overwhelming offensive from the north and south to cut off all ukrainian forces east of the dnieper river which would effectively end the war. Its almost like all parties involved want to keep this war going for their own purposes.
regards,
ralph
Russia protection?
And it’s would be waaaay to obvious who dunnit.
His day will come. Maybe an accusation of corruption, rape, something to arrest him with that looks unrelated….🤔
Watch for the charge sheet.
CIA protection empowering someone to spit that kind of truths ?
Not very convincing.
He understands that only thing keeping him alive is if he regularly comes online to speak, because if he would die after he was speaking against UKR he would be excellent PR munition for RU side to exploit.
It is also possible that he has some hidden cache of documents that would go public if he would dissappear, so that can also hold him safe
It is also possible that he is West’s asset and that he is doing what is needed in order for them to pull out from UKR – they cannot save face internationally anymore (all serious players have clearly seen who they are and how week they have become in regards to serious players – they can still bomb/harass small countries), but maybe with a good PR they can save face domestically
I’m suspecting he’s working with western intelligence, too. I think Larry’s quote could be sarcasm out of context. Arestovych got some heavy promotion in this CIA connected newspaper: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/18/ukraine-russia-visa-ban-zelensky-arestovych/
I think he may have been opposed to the Russian ban because western intelligence is running operations out of Ukraine into Russia and Belarus. He was hoping he could pick and choose who went back and forth.
I could be wrong, but for now, I don’t trust him at all.
Arestovich always spoke Russian, never Ukrainian. Pay attention to this.
What does this mean?
That Arestovich worked for the eastern and south-eastern, mainly Russian-speaking population.
The change in rhetoric may indicate that the curators of Ukraine understand that the eastern and southern regions are already lost to Ukraine geographically, but it is possible to preserve an ideologically, mentally Russophobic electorate loyal to Ukraine.
Arestovich is a project. It was a project, it remains a project.
If you closely follow the changes in the information and political field, you can notice the tendency of Ukrainian politicians, journalists, popular military bloggers to move to the Donbass and further to Russia. Ukrainians want to shape the narrative in the Russian media.
Medvedchuk, Tsarev, Kiva, Khodakovsky, Fomin, Yuri Podolyaka, Diana Panchenko, Bilchenko, Dolgareva, Sladkov, Montyan, Grubnik and many others.
The only success behind their info/psyop is not their ability to strategize, it is only the amount of media that goes the line.
So far their grand strategy for controlling the narrative, is, to put it mildly, a disgrace.
I do not think they are able to make any plans, like the one you theorized.
They are not capable, but they want to, using media technologies.
this is a brilliant analysis
While Russia has an undisputed strong military, their leadership was dupped numerous times – at the NATO will not be expanded, Minsk 1&2, Nord Stream 1&2 and many other accords, treaties, promises, and BS LEVELS. Still, they believed the Ukraine/Donbass could be solved with a quick bloodless SMO, so, they started unprepared, and with lots of dreams.
Few cold showers later, they started to wake up and realize that the 1000+ year English hate of the Slavs is still a thing alive, and kicking, and no fine diplomacy will change that. So, the Russian military is learning fast, their economy is adapting, and their population realizes that they are just considered sub-humans, and their country has to be partitioned. (Which no amount of western propaganda can change)
After 11 months of SMO, they start to have a trained military ready to take anybody and anywhere in the world.
So, here is my issue, once this Russian trained, battle tested, working as a well oiled machine, will reach say 500,000 to 1,000,000 soldiers, they will do what? Start farming?
Problem that we could easily avoided if we would have diplomats instead of propagandists.
Russian military forces have decades of work ahead in Ukraine. Millions of young Ukrainazis have been taught to hate Russia, so I think the SMO will need to continue indefinitely, as some kind of military force protecting the Ukraine citizens who want to coexist with Russia.
1989-1991 There was still on country, USSR
2023-1991 =32 years, so at most two generations. No, country can change in two generations from a failed socialist bureaucracy to Nazism, so everything will reverse to some equilibrium before BOTH of those ideologies
(Our species, is violent, greedy, selfish, but NOT stupid)
Yes, this is also my concern. By the end of combat operations in the Ukraine, Russia will have highly tuned combat forces with an economy placed into a partial war footing. This will give the Russian leadership all sorts of options to teach the Poles and Baltics a lesson in good manners and respect….
I hope Putin and Russian senior leadership can resist the temptation.
This tragedy will defintely start a new arms race in Europe. This will have lots of unforseen implications for the balance of power across the major states of Europe. Once Germany starts spending more on Defense, France and the UK will be prompted to do the same. Germany will look at Poland’s plan for military expansion and will be forced to respond in kind….
You can thanks the USA & UK neocons for this shit show.
Good that they will spend more on defense. That will further starve their already expensive economy. This will further make their products uncompetitive and if your economy can’t support your war effort you are doomed no matter what arms You built up your real strength is your economy.
Once Germany starts spending more money on defense….
You can’t eat money. A millionaire could starve in the desert.
And in Germany, there are no more soldiers like you had them in 1930. Germany has reduced birth rates, a third being of non Germans, and a labour market that looks for replacing the boomer generation.
No chance to build up a working army. Aside from the motivation of young people.
I don’t believe that Russia is in the imperialist mode….they have been there and done that. They know it does not work and with the pesky Caucasus and the almost entire former Central Asian provinces they have their hands full.
There will be a stand off surly with the EU once this Ukraine operation is resolved territory wise and all of this mobilization will be greatly in their favor just to hold things together and keep the peace in the new territories. That is going to be a full time job for the next what, one or two generations? Definitely most probable. The rogue USA and co with harass them mercilessly and indefinitely……so 500k to 1m is what they need once Ukraine capitulates, as sure thing.
They weren’t duped bro. They played along, while they equipped their military to the hilt with modern weaponry.
I don’t think they have ever really been duped – I think they knew what is happening all along (probably from USSR collapse – as more and more time passes I am more and more convinced that it was planned as well), but they needed time to properly prepare, reorganize and to show their own population what West’s real attentions are – sometimes, you just have to let people learn on their own skin, since telling just them isn’t going to cut it.
They also needed to cut out well established 5th column inside their country and one way to do it was to cut out baltics and west ukr from their country, and second step of defeating 5th column was this UKR theater where I think it was pretty well done as well.
An a for 500.000 – 1.000.000 battle hardened soldiers – well, first of all, everyone in their country is serving one year in military so its not a very big difference, and second, there will over be place for those who want to fight in Wagner or professional army, as demand for both will be great in the future – i.e. they do plan to increase standing military by 500.000 people, and after Wagner shows entire world what it is made of, they will be hired all over the globe which is good use for those really hardcore players
And that’s supposed to mean something now?
“The Russians are coming”? That is apparently chiseled into the gene pool of the “Westman”. If science is so far, one will be able to identify such a gene sequence surely without further ado.
By the way, his premises stated at the beginning are wrong.
Perhaps he should inform himself a little better – here for example:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70159
“Meeting of Defence Ministry Board
December 21, 2022 Moscow
Vladimir Putin spoke at an expanded meeting of the Board of the Defence Ministry, which was held at the National Defence Control Centre.
…”
Duped or gave benefit of doubt in light of the consequences of doing otherwise.
great piece- another good one is from animal house
Animal House – Remain Calm, All is Well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWBiLeVy45k
regards,
ralph
“… is now under fire on the home front as investigations into government corruption …”
It would seem that Elensky and Reznikov would agree, that Ukraine has the best military money can buy.
Western governments took alternative foreign news outlets off their air precisely because they wanted their own citizens to remain in perpetual ignorance.
It’s quite sad for me to see what Europe has been reduced to during my last visit there! It was truly Orwellian. I had to use VPN before I could access my favorite news sites!
I have no answer to what exactly the people were fed to make them so sheepish!
What is even more disappointing is the liars don’t fear any consequences when their lies are eventually exposed to their populations.
A main course of entitlement with a side dish of hubris? Looks like humble pie might be on the menu for desert.
“I have no answer to what exactly the people were fed to make them so sheepish!”
I have one hypothesis:
In Europe, for the last 70 years, we have an overdose of american propaganda.
American movies on which they always save the world from the bad guys.
And in the tv news, anything that happens in the US (shootings, floods .. fires … any stupid singer or actor … whatever), the stupid “journalists” enjoy showing it).
Only my opinion Femi.
Every time BoJo goes to Ukraine it’s to celebrate another victory. This time apparently to deliver a series of resignation letters with criminal cases attached. Which tells us that in addition to the Ukrainian Government being completely wrecked with corruption scandals, the Russian offensive is getting closer and hence the attempt to change some minds more susceptible to the change in rubles. Arestovich’s rat was only the first to abandon ship and is unlikely to reach shore. If you are still in Ukraine.
I suspect Johnson is being paid by Kiev
I suspect Johnson is being paid by Kiev
I knew we couldn’t trust Larry and his CIA background! 🤣
Few lost in translation hints, and life hacks.
East Europeans are joking nonstop, which is a fine way to probe you, if your mind is agile enough. Also, a drinking game will test your limits.
As a rule of thumb nobody likes anybody the further is from one place, however, most of the time everyone is accepted. So, there is a bad idea to talk about the neighboring countries in ANY East European country. You are setting yourself for lots of grief, including long history lessons, which can take few hours, to few days. I had one for close to three weeks (during a party). The good news is that 80-90% of the East Europeans drink from beer up. So, some stories can be redeemed in a bunch of alcohol.
The majority of East Europeans are very patriots and religious. That goes from the one who begs you for some change, to the last billionaire.
Now, the issue of war.
Nobody, wants it but if in nobody lets it go. Take the Serbs. 1000 years from now, their kids-kids, […] kids will still go after the people who bombed them in 1999. There is nothing you or I can do. They will find you and kill you.
With Russians are a bit different, they are like the East Europeans plus they have their rules, and if you respect them, they don’t give a shit what you do (see above). The problem starts when people interfere with their lives, they go grumpy, then upset. Probably the BEAR IS the best animal to describe them. They are powerful.
They don’t want war either, but they organically hate anything related to nazim, and who can blame them? They say that there is no family in Russia which didn’t lose a relative in the Great Patriotic War (WW2)
As a Serb I wonder if this particular bunch of predatory psychopaths (see the article below) deserves even more hatred than Nazis
(from the horse’s mouth):
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
I was shocked when I read it not so long ago – most people here in Serbia don’t know this and I bet it’s similar all over Eastern Europe for the reason explained by Solzhenitzyn:
“…You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators…”
Not entirely true. It was a mix of people. Including Russian Jews funded by the US bankers including NY based Schiff family, see congressman of same name.
It was largely NY banker funding that made the Bolsheviks successful. They were one of many minor opposition groups in Russia at the time but the money gave them scale, without American money they could not progress. Jews were mistreated by the Tzar so it’s not surprising they joined into various opposition groups. But the Bolsheviks were more diverse than that, a proper left wing terror group and of course the money from America was sweet…
I believe that western support and funding for the revolution in Russia was designed to create the pretext for the collective west invasion in support of the Whites in 1918. The Reds were not supposed to win. It’s eerily similar to today’s conflict in Ukraine – where the sanctions were supposed to cause revolution and chaos in Russia allowing the west to intervene
Just goes to show how decrepit the ruling class has become. From films to color revolutions, everything is a ‘reboot.’
The west goal was civil war in Russia in 1917, then, when the soviets wins it (1929~1922) , it was a big oOpsy moment ! Why get a civil war in an allied country you might ask ? Easy , just look at the biggest consequences , Brest-Litovsk and the Russian weren’t allowed to discuss Versailles Treaties. Anglo never liked this too-big of a country to begin with.
Dollars poor to the Versailles refunded Poland to invade USSR (19~21) , then Baltics in 20 … then the soviet winning booth forced the Poland backers to a botched peace deal.
Very similar to what we are seeing now. Same goal , same tools , same failure.
One doesn’t not need to bother with what Western/NATO journalists say about the war in Ukraine or say about any other issues. The western Neoliberal system is so rotten at the core that almost everything they do is deception. Journalists working for the gossip outlet called the Daily Beast, must follow boss’ order so as to make money to pay rent and other expenses. They will receive no money if they tell the truth. That’s how corrupt is the Uncle Sam’s system. The Zelinski regime is also fully in the game, That’s why they can’t see that they have lost Solder and are about to lose Artemovsk, too.
For several years we have been watching a worldwide all too real dystopian scenario.
Now for a change we find ourselves watching a tragedy of the first magnitude, in the best tradition of Aeschylus, Shakespeare or Asian operas.
On top of the characters on stage, a bloody ruler in denial of reality, awaiting the end in a fictional world inside a noise proof inner palace.
The list of characters includes enforcing henchmen, brave warriors, patriotic generals, foreign emissaries.
Also a former aide cursed or blessed with a better sense of reality.
This one recognizing he is a dead man, having lived as a puppet, unexpectedly decides to die a man.
It happens. Lifesize. For everyone to see.
Tragedy is a deadly serious thing.
Could it be a light is showing thru the cracks in the official narrative? It wouldn’t take much. Given how dark it is in Europe, even a penlight would illuminate.
Did it all start with Merkle? Was her candid admission a pay-back for years of being manipulated by the Yanks in Ramstein? Now the German generals are speaking out.
As for the German Greens, just asking here but does conniving with an occupation force constitute treason? And whatever was the outcome of that missing statue in the Munich meeting hall when Baerbock hosted a sort-of G7 meeting while Scholz was in Beijing trying to make nice with the Chinese?
Aside from the couple of hundred people that still have a Ukrainian flag in their Twitter bio, Zelensky and Joe Biden are probably the only two people who believe the official BS. After all, the teleprompter wouldn’t lie to them, right?
The most interesting is a difference between the USA and Europe in resistance to this madness. I guess we agree that the USA is profiting to a large extent from this war, but in addition to that, in America you have influential individuals, the media, a significant part of the Republicans who oppose the war against Russia.
At the same time, in Europe, which is the biggest victim of this war, there is no one relevant to oppose the madness, perhaps except for Hungarian PM Orban. European media, individuals, politics, total lobotomy.
Look at the political-media rape of German Chancellor Scholz just because he is cautious about the delivery of German tanks to the Ukrainian regime. Scholz sees that the neocons fulfilled their promise to destroy any connection between Russia and Germany, then they destroyed the NS. And all that was not enough for them, but now, 80 years after Stalingrad, they are forcing Germany into an open war with Russia.
Je vis en Europe et je suis tout a fait d’accord avec vous. les gens , quelque soit leur niveau social, sont devenus stupide et ils avalent goulument la propagande 🙁
No contest here. More objective coverage in the US than Europe.
However I think RT and Saker are blocked in the US. Shocking that no legal challenge to that.
RT bloccata anche in €U .
It visited both of those sites no problem. US, no VPN.
vero.
i governi europei sono complici e servi del governo U$A.
History repeating itself?
“European public opinion as a whole opposed Russia. In a speech in parliament Lord Clarendon called the war (Crimean) a struggle for the “independence of Europe”, for civilization, against barbarism.”
Pg. 84, “Russia in the 19th Century”, Pulunov, (2005).
I like how the Daily Beast says the information has come from a Russian NGO, but then goes on to quote from John Kirby (not a Russian NGO) before relying on “hints” from Zelensky (even less of a Russian NGO than Kirby).
Anyway, I followed the link and it is wrong to claim that its source is “a Russian non-governmental organization”.
The source is Olga Romanova, who heads “Russia Behind Bars”.
But if you look up “Russia Behind Bars” you’ll find this nugget of information:
“The head of Russia Behind Bars Olga Romanova announced on her Facebook page that starting from 26 June 2020 the charity will be closed.” …. “However, she also stated that the Fund will continue its work only now without a legal entity.”
If that is the case then “Russia Behind Bars” ceased to have the status of a Russian NGO in 2020, thereafter having the legal status of “rabble-rousers”.
Indeed, I have as much claim to being a “Russian NGO” as does Olga Romanova.
From a standing start that took me all of 10 minutes to find on the interwebs, so I don’t know why the reporter from the Daily Beast couldn’t also do that sort of due diligence.
Oh, wait, yeah, I do know why: She’s A Shill.
Both sides are so far apart on the facts, let alone the narrative- that any negotiation is going to be some way ahead.
If Russia is truly winning on the battlefield, then it might not be a bad thing in that once all the objectives of the SMO are achieved- Russia can stop and the West will still achieve ‘victory’ and come to some form of ceasefire / demilitarized zone. I still think landlocking Ukraine will give NATO a major reason to escalate.
[Next up are sending tanks, then imposing no fly zones + jet fighters, then NATO soldiers, then tactical nukes, then major nukes.]
However, whether that ceasefire agreement is abided by the West is another thing because the narratives behind the agreement are so different. In the meantime, the global economic adjustments will continue, especially the de-dollarisation.
This too will cause instability because most countries are on the dollar system and inflation + cultural + race/religion clashes will really pressure Western political systems. Besides, the US neo-cons sure as hell are not going to go down without their 11 air craft carrier fleets giving a fight (or a false reason)!
I think if things are not managed properly, we’re steering to WW3 without knowing it.
I actually don’t think the US can even deploy its oversized force because it is bordering on obsolete and its costs are astronomical. The lifeblood of it all was deficits funded by QE and that is looking very shaky.
Another key weaknesses is the general lack of loyalty and readiness. There are way fewer fit patriotic rural Americans to draft.
The US specialty has been as the money changing manipulator at the hand of King Theodin. It has outsourced all the material assets needed to fight. Now it prints money and hires mercenaries like the Papal States.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to learn the founder of The Daily Beast, Tina Brown, is a British intelligence asset. She was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In other words, British-Zionism.
The Daily Beast’s editor was Noah Shachtman (2018-2021). Shachtman is now the editor of Rolling Stone so you have once again, a Jewish lens peering into anything reported through the Daily Beast or the Rolling Stone on the circumstances in Ukraine. Shachtman attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a former non-resident fellow of the Neocon wonk tank the Brookings Institute.
Shannon Vavra wrote a piece suggesting that Jews should leave Russia because of their fear of rising antisemitism in Russia. That is a bold face lie. Anyone who depends on the Daily Beast for news lacks sufficient discernment and credibility when discussing what is happening in Ukraine.
They have exercised considerable influence/control over the levers of power in the USA and UK since the start of the 20th century.
That’s horrible that Daily Beast is trying to displace Jewish communities from Russia. They are happy and healthy there. https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-miracle-rabbi-explains-why-russias-jews-have-low-covid-19-death-rate/
The anti-semitism is happening in the US and Europe. Scapegoating always happens in troubled places.
Arestovich on the opening days of the Russian SMO: “Such an elegant, beautiful, lightning-fast special operation …” and one that wouldn’t hurt a kitten.
Finally someone sees it the way I do. I thank you Oleisky for this. I thought I was alone. I thought I was goin’ crazy!
Too funny.
You know, in the first days of the war, before the information curtain came down, there was lots of video pouring out Ukraine, and much of it was as striking as it was weird. Two videos in particular stood out for me. The Russian “offensive” in the south, the one that moved north out of Crimea and split into three, taking Kherson on the march on Day 4, Melitipol after a brief skirmish on Day 5, and most importantly, the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia – without incident – on Day 8,* happened to overtake two brigade sized Ukraine supply columns on the roadways, and Russian helicopter gunships shot em up.
Both of these columns were over 10 kilometers long, and as we drove past miles and miles abandoned vehicles, it immediately became clear that the Russians were not going to be all that interested in killing men or machines during the course of this war. Only the lead vehicles at various points in the columns had been destroyed, the few armored vehicles to be found here and there in the columns all had one neat hole in them, and that was it, everything else had been left untouched.
Hundreds of military support vehicles without a scratch on them, and no evidence at all of 30 milimeter cannon fire seeking soft targets as they attempted to flee. No chunks torn out of the pavement, no ripped up grass.
You did not have to be Sherlock Holmes to easily reinvision the scene, Ukrainians on the ground waving to the Russians in the air, asking them with hand signals if it was ok to go back and grab a forgotten lunchpail before their APC got rocketed, then given the thumbs up.
Truly awesome scenes, forever burned into my memory. No charred corpses! The total lack of devastation! How un-American!
Those were my intial thoughts, but then as I continued to take it all in, the shockingly gentle way in which the firepower had been applied to these turkey shoots, I began to have other thoughts, like; if this war turns ugly, which wars have a tendency to do, you Rooskies may come to regret such noble and magnanimous acts.
*Yeah, the power plant was taken by a Russian flying column on 8th day of the SMO, it was only on the 9th day that Russians began, for the first time, to implement their grand stategic vision that is still in play to this day, the one in which they bombard their own postitions, relentlessly … and with extreme ferocity.
“Tonight, we have breaking news, the Russians are shelling a nuclear power plant they now have under control!!!” Wolf Blitzer screamed at me on the evening of Day 9. “And such a maniacal scorched earth SELF-ATTACK could well lead to the death of Europe!!!”
It really was an elegant military operation that almost worked. They didn’t make it far enough in the south. The north and Kiev didn’t rise up and welcome the Russians like the south did. But still, by April Ukraine was negotiating. Now how much of that was in earnest is now in question given recent interviews. But I think it was probably more real than not since it lead to the assassination of negotiator and an emergency trip by Johnson.
Russia shouldn’t regret it. Those first weeks of the war showed the world (and history) Russian intentions. It showed Russian and Ukrainians with friends/family across the border what could have been. Future Russians will read their history and see an attempt to solve the problem with as little violence as possible. It shows the negotiations prior to 2/24 were in good faith.
“Future Russians will read their history and see an attempt to solve the problem with as little violence as possible.”
Agree.
If I want to know the truth, I just need to reverse everything opposite what media is reporting. Works all the time.
Je vis en Europe et je suis tout a fait d’accord avec vous. les gens , quelque soit leur niveau social, sont devenus stupide et ils avalent goulument la propagande 🙁
Brilliant analogy – ´´the Black knight with his flesh wound ´´ is the highlight of a timeless brilliant movie for me.
Arestovich reads like he is making his peace with his god – he knows so many good people have been slaughtered already and if he is going to join them in 2023 it wont be as a member of team Zelensky.
Lines 620-624 from Sophocles’s Antigone sung by the Χορός – the dance ring:
εἰδότι δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἕρπει, πρὶν πυρὶ θερμῷ πόδα τις προσαύσῃ.
σοφίᾳ γὰρ ἔκ του κλεινὸν ἔπος πέφανται.
τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν
τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν ὅτῳ φρένας
θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν.
The deception comes to one who is wholly unawares until he burns his foot on a hot fire.
For with wisdom did someone once reveal the maxim, now famous,
that evil at one time or another seems good,
to him whose mind
the god leads to ruin.
Things that happen on the battlefield. Russian IT specialists are preparing a combat robot named ‘Marker’. As soon as the battlefield tests have satisfactory results, these combat robots will be introduced in real. From a report by Russian RT https://russian.rt.com/ussr/article/1101243-rossiya-armiya-pozicii-vsu-zaporozhe
“New technology at the forefront
In February, mortars equipped with smart sights will be tested in the zone of a special military operation in Ukraine. This was announced by the head of the group of military advisers and the scientific and technical center “Tsar’s Wolves” Dmitry Rogozin.
“These mortars in the required quantity for trial operation will be at our disposal during February. We, accordingly, will test them in battle, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
He also said that next month three promising combat robots “Marker” will arrive in the NWO zone.
According to him, the Tsarskie Wolves will train a group of IT specialists who will become operators of these machines. After running in at the training ground, they will be sent directly to the front line.
“We need to understand how the Marker will work in conditions when the enemy will introduce corrections based on navigation signals, when powerful electronic warfare systems will work. How will this machine cope, how will it overcome all this with its technical “brains”, how will the operator navigate in order to escape from the blow and, on the contrary, strike at the enemy, ”Rogozin explained.”
Man. Amazing. Think of what humans could do with such brains focused on issues like hunger, addiction or homelessness.
Soon soldiers will have joysticks and look like that Crypto schmuck SBF. My good looks would be wasted.
last night sky noos gave a presentation on how the Ukies were winning, and how they would perform their Ukie Spring offensive. It certainly was news to many of us that large parts of the Ruskie army were surrounded and about to be ‘rolled up’. At the same time as the Ukies were going to retake Crimea.
The sky news missed out the ‘bbc checked fact’ that there is a Lancaster bomber on the Moon. Its alongside the B17 reported late December 2022.
Imagine the confusion in America when the 100 year tried and true US diplomacy model of sending guns and bombs did not work.What do we do now?No one in power has an alternative plan.Sooo lets send more guns and bombs and see what happens.
To follow Larry Johnson’s line of reasoning, what next?
“A house divided cannot stand.”
Divided leadership is a substantial problem for the West. Do they intervene, place their own people in the holes, takeover or just try to ride it out until the horse is dead?
My bet is on a combination of trying to plug holes and ride it out. They’ve built Zekensky up so much that as long as his mug is on screen the Western public will see leadership intact. And Zekensky is protected by the British who control his every move.
War is complex, expensive and difficult at the best of times. The scale of corruption is indicative of the views of the leadership. If they see the battle lost, which I think now they do, then why not grab what you can as it makes no difference to outcome. Therefore as losses mount, theft and corruption will increase.
Where does this leave the West? There is that sinking feeling of a real risk the West will announce a non NATO peace keeping force to hold the West, there is really no option now but to take over the war if it is to continue, whether under the Ukranians brand or a Western one.
There has been a steady flow of Poles over the border with over a thousand reported killed. Many Americans and Brits etc in there too. Mozart group is a front.
The West will make a last stand. A way to claim some sort of victory. I wonder if Russia are in the mood to let them.
So in short I expect the US and UK to take full effective operational control of not just the military but the country and to begin to get high numbers of NATO bodies into Western Ukraine. At some point they have to mobilise now. They will have planned this for months so they will be ready to enter the theatre more openly. In 2-3 months is my guess.
That is a fair strep, Ash. I like your idea that an off-ramp exists in filling western Ukraine with NATO troops, conceding the east to Russia and declaring victory by reason, fictitious or not, of having prevented Russia from proceeding to overrun Europe.
Would the west take that off-ramp? They may not have a choice in the near future. However, would the Russians allow them to do it? I don’t know. It seems to me it would represent an uneasy temporary cease fire and not a true peace, if it were allowed to happen.
Why not a true peace? The west would use the Russian invasion and the uneasy ceasefire as an excuse to build up their militaries (there’s already talk of that). When the west believed itself ready, they would attack eastern Ukraine/Russia; it would take a few years, but it would likely happen. Russia must know that. So wouldn’t Russia just decide to continue slaughtering opposing forces now while it’s easier + there’s the chance that the slaughter and loss of military hardware/ordnance might eventually fragment NATO?
But a continued successful slaughter of whoever enters the fray with combat boots on the ground (e.g. Poland, the US) risks nuclear war (the west is left with no other options once losses reach a critical mass). So maybe it will be an uneasy ceasefire afterall – while Russia waits for backfiring sanctions to cause NATO and the EU to break apart with individual components being forced to side with Russia for energy supplies and to instill enough balance to stave off WW3 + a little help from Turkey and the Saudi Arabians.
Scenarios of precarious balance and great risk any way you cut it.
Mozart Group??? The Brit Born, retired USMC colonel is back in the US of A. Did you not see him, totally shite-faced on Bourbon, whilst being debriefed by two fellows on the telly? Well, maybe some of his schock troops decided to remain in Ukraine for the $$$$.
That Col had 0 command presence. A weird guy. I don’t get it.
This is for the deep state (Peter Dale Scott) propagandist doing stenography at the Daily Beast Shannon Vavra.
Wagner Founder Explains US Hostility – Russian Firm Is Aa “Vice Squad” Pitted Against American Gangsters
https://www.rt.com/russia/570364-wagner-prigozhin-us-hostility/
Remember, both Poroshenko and Zelensky won elections by promising to make peace. Promising peace wins elections in Ukraine. The election is in 2024, but who expects the government to remain intact until then? I think the writing is on the wall and the typical politicians are jockeying to be the next rip-off artist-in-chief. Those who are honestly trying to change direction get blown up in helicopters. Those who are playing the game don’t. I can’t believe Aristovich’s massive switch. Russia is suddenly a “gentle giant” to him? And they are letting him publish something like this and stay alive? I think that it is just the next bait-and-switch. Zelensky’s friend is still his friend. They are setting him up to be the next head of the “family” so Zelensky can retire to one of his mansions in the West. They are figuring that the West and the Ukranian people are just going to fall for it again. Or maybe the West is involved and he is going to be the next puppet-in-training.
Thanks for yet another example of MSM/Ukraine publishing what is ostensibly about Russians, but is really about themselves…
Russian news channel ‘vesti’ reports about an important development in Russian oil & gas technology. In the past Russia was dependent on Western technology for the exploration of oil & gas fields. Now Russia is becoming 100% self-reliant. https://www.vesti.ru/finance/article/3163549
Russia replaces imported technologies in mining
For the first time, Russian oil and gas companies have begun to use national chemicals instead of imported ones to increase oil recovery at fields, said Evgeny Petrov, head of the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use (Rosnedr), during a working meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
“The first Russian “chemistry” has appeared, which is used in the development of oil fields. Before that, it was almost completely imported,” the head of the department said. developed and is at the last stages of life, stages of development. This will have a very significant effect in the coming years.”
Rosnedra will intensify work to increase the depth of processing of the obtained raw materials, the use of Russian technologies.
“I would like to note that in those almost 1.6 thousand projects that we have considered, we are 100% obliged to use Russian technologies. And already in 38% of our projects that have been approved, completely Russian technologies are used, mills and crushers of Russian production, mining equipment,” the head of Rosnedra emphasized.
According to him, Rosnedra, together with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, created a technological map of the industry, all stages of geological exploration and the life cycle of the deposit have been digitized.
“Today we are developing strategic investment programs, with the help of which the state will be able to stimulate the development of the most important links in the technological chain,” Petrov said.
Mishustin instructed to control that the fields cover the key needs of the country.
The fog goes on in many angles in the #404 conflict. I “ve never seen or ever dreamt of a war being fought so much , say 90% in words, imagery, fakery and propagandary as this one.
My hardest efforts deal with illuminating, telling apart, turnin round (sometimes inside out) things to cast a light on what comes out of that place.
It will be a bright day when, ten years from now, one inner circle like Peskow, or dmitry something from the Chiesfs of Staff writes a book on what really was planned, fought and carried out from the russian side of the war.
The cartoon at the top of the article can also support a top caption “Global Minority” and a bottom caption ” Global majority.”
Sending heavy tanks in 404 will just expand MIC customer base. For the rest, Kornet and Krasnopol are not racist scums and will perform with the WASP tanks just alike the soviets ones.
Anyway , with no maintenance options on such a disparate vehicles park ; tanks are single use for the UAF, a bit like kleenex tissues or condoms.
Baghdad Bob is safe , he’s one of Kolomoisky toy and none dare to break this guy toys. Plus it could give the 404 regime a bad press cover , and press is the only world in witch they are winning for now. You can “disappear” a minister in a too convenient heli crash , but not twice a week (I didn’t see a body …).
The architect of Rapallo Walter Rathenau was assassinated(hmm?) GET OUT! RODEF and MOSERIN” even if they take a SIDE, they can be BIBLICALLY resolved. As per yesterday’s article, when speaking of Iraq(maybe there are some youngins out there) but look up 1950-1951 Baghdad bombings, Suez crisis and the Lavon affair. Optics- 26 Feb 1991, received word one of our platoons had secured US embassy in Kuwait city(happiness:),four hrs later told they had to leave, requested to know why- cuz Special Forces were coming in to do it for the KAMERAS(imagine Japanese Accent:) Eat the Apfel …… you know the rest.
Yet another Kuwait City story: A deal was made for the stalwart Saudi forces to go into Kuwait City before the Marine grunt units, probably to fool the press and/or any other oxygen thieving Americans present. So here we are, in our trusty Humvees at a roundabout watching the Saudi army drive in with their M-113s having met no opposition on the coastal road leading north. Why no opposition may you ponder? Because the Iraqi army had to go inland to get to the so-called highway of death, which had not as yet earned it’s name, in order to make it to the Iraqi frontier. I talked to an Iraqi Warrant officer from a D-30 artillery battery, captured inland, who said that himself and a handful of “Jundis” (enlisted men) could only man one gun. The only reason we were in the city was because we were driving our interpreters home, one-by-one. We were Uber before Uber was cool, or invented for that matter. And on your last “Eat the Apple and fuck the Corps.”
PS – As in the 60s, one can substitute Corps for Crotch.
Ukraine have listen to his master’s motivational speakers US, UK, EU and NATO thinking he’s going to win a war with mighty Russia, Zelensky regime is collapsing little by little very soon Russia is going overthrow Neo-Nazi Zelensky.
Arestovich appears to be taking a hardline stance. I’ve seen this stance reflected in some of the recent vids where a Ukrainian soldier curses Zelensky. Is he positioning himself for an upcoming coup attempt?
Yes, he is …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh37Ef_a3Zo
Starting soon:
https://apeiron.school/realized-personality
Would American and Europeans support the continued arming of Ukraine if they knew the truth? Of course not. Thus, they lie. The worst the setbacks, the bigger the lies.
The truth is, the West is callously butchering the young men of Ukraine for poorly thought out reasons. Zelensky knows this, and he doesn’t care because he’ll retire super rich to some other country.
The Ukrainian leadership is in a inescapable trap one that can only end in the bitterest way… The foundations of a great Tragedy are being written and despite being the Villains of the Hour its not the Russians who will be reviled most.. Defeat creates all new Villains out of former Hero’s.
Once this war ends, once its resolved the leaders of Ukraine will be blamed by all parties and so these leaders need the War, to remain in control with power and tapping into a river of money for as long as possible because once the fighting stops the money stops. Securing a life in exile is extremally expensive…
The Ukrainian people will blame their leaders for not fighting competently enough and or failing to negotiate an end to the conflict before suffering unbearable losses of men and territory…
The US paymasters will blame Ukrainian leadership for corruption and ineptitude for squandering and stealing hundreds of billions dollars from the American People and the Ukrainians. What’s left of the Ukraine after the fighting will be left in ruins abandoned by the West as an example of that happens to those who fail and the now deposed Ukrainian leadership will be blamed for stealing Ukraine future as well as its past.
Far to much blood and treasure has been spilled for the Ukrainian leadership to abscond themselves peacefully in the US or Europe protected from the consequences of failure the costs are simple to high. History and the basic nature of politicians tells us that the US political body will shift all the burden of loss onto the Ukrainian Leadership..
Americans in red states, at least, aren’t paying attention to Ukraine and don’t care in the slightest. I can’t recall one single conversation with an actual person over the last year about the war except to the extent someone might say something about not giving a damn and not wanting to go to war.
Americans do not watch cable news. CNN has prime time shows with viewership number in the thousands. The only news watched in any substantial numbers by people who are mostly over the age of 65 is Fox News. And the number one show on Fox and in the country by a long shot is Tucker Carlson who is rabidly anti-war and anti-Zelensky. Social media draws the small subset interested in such things but the numbers aren’t really that great.
Twitter doesn’t matter as that the majority of pro Ukraine people on there are bots who are as fake as the average Biden voter in inner city Philadelphia.
America has been hijacked and has been for a long time. The secret the elites figured out in America was that rather than being despotic and tyrannical, it is best to keep most people prospering and mostly stay out of their way. If you do that, you can do what you want.
For all the talk about things getting bad and all, things are still pretty damned good in America for the middle class. If you work, you can’t help but prosper. It’s the truth. No one is poor in America unless they want to be or enjoy victim status more than material wealth.
I’m not sure whether that is an endorsement of America or an indictment, but it’s the truth. Things are going to have to get a lot worse before the average American can be bothered to care about what is happening or being done in his name by the criminals in charge.
I do wonder if someday the Western press will be held accountable for its intentional reporting of “skewed news”?
I read today in RIA.ru that Fearless Leader Zelensky has asked Belarus to sign a non-aggression pact. I see that as an indicator of extreme worry from Fearless Leader Zelensky that things are not going well in the south (actually all of Ukraine) and he would rather not face Belarus forces in the north…or something akin to that.
Fearless Leader Zelensky continues to purge those around him, based on their corruption. Makes one wonder who is turning on whom and who will end up being “sacrificed”. Looks like the recent helo crash of note has been blamed on pilot error…flying too low and in the fog. I would think a military pilot is trained in IFR and a military helicopter is equipped to fly IFR. there is more to this helo crash than is being revealed I would suspect.
The Ukrainian rats are preparing for the end.
Im curious how Wagner turns prisoners into successful soldiers which they do. Training soldiers takes several months at least for skills and competence as a team. I’d like to know more. Is it training and then 6 months active duty?
Sure appears that way. The video I’ve seen of them operating shows they are well skilled.
I would venture a guess that many of the prisoner volunteers have former military background. Somewhere in life they took a wrong turn and wound up in prison. Some people learn after one visit to prison and never want to return so this is a good opportunity for these citizens to redeem themselves. Though, I believe that no one should consider 6 months on the front line in Ukraine as a cake walk. These guys have earned their pardons.
Western elites (and much of the population) live in a Metaverse. It’s all good until somebody pulls the plug or knocks the VR headset off their heads.
The West attacked Russia with everything it had financially, economically, culturally and finally militarily, only to watch dumbfounded as every attack fizzled or turned into an own-goal.
That’s bad enough, but their really big mistake was to prep the field with a grotesquely inflated psy-op infomercial campaign intended to set Russia up as push-over. From Obama onwards, the story was that Russia was financially & economically fragile, its elites and people were ready for revolt against an unstable (and “unacceptable”) political leadership protected by a military that was as likely to desert as it was to fight.
Western politicians bought in because taking Russia down and gaining control of Eurasia looked like a slam-dunk with no downsides, but now these hapless nobodies find themselves holding the bag and staring at the end of their political careers.
The only question is who sold this catnip to them. Normally, intelligence agencies gather the data that informs policy. If that was so in this case, one can’t but conclude that this was no ordinary intelligence failure. Rather, it looks like another case of somebody “sexing up” the data to suit an agenda that any politician would otherwise hesitate to support.
We’re not wrong to blame the Bidens, BoJos and Sholtzs for their roles, but MI6, CIA, BND et al are all but certainly the real architects behind the West’s catastrophic geopolitical failure.
Speaking of architects, the current alt-wisdom has it that the personnel changes & assassinations in Kiev indicate a collapsing regime. I kinda doubt it. That the SHTF within hours of William Burns’ visit to Kiev is unlikely to be a coincidence. More likely (IMHO), Burns came with a list of who’s in and who’s out. The CIA is taking greater control in Kiev. As the CIA must know that UA’s military prospects are dim, making sure they’re at the table when surrender is negotiated and placing themselves in a position to subvert Russia’s assumption of political control are likely goals.
>>Western politicians bought in because taking Russia down and gaining control of Eurasia looked like a slam-dunk with no downsides, but now these hapless nobodies find themselves holding the bag and staring at the end of their political careers.
End of political careers isn’t enough for these fuckwits. We need heads on spikes to deter any others who think this stuff is a good idea.
Et n’oublions SURTOUT PAS qu’une offensive de char DOIT être en osmose complète avec l’artillerie ET l’aviation … DEUX armes dont l’Ukraine est gravement déficiente (tout particulièrement s’agissant de l’aviation !) …
Good afternoon/evening to everyone!
If not already posted and with the permission of Mr. Johnson, I would like to come back to Mr. Arestovich and his (apparently) chameleonic skills:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOBggWPw7GY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-PtIeisqsw
A master class in acting, in my humble opinion…
the blond woman in both vids looks like a dude with a wig. i assume that is him. Mr. Arestovich and tom hanks should have done a tv series together.
bosom budies
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080202/
regards,
ralph
My better half – that’s Mrs. Newhill – spent her first eighteen years as a simple, hard working, farm girl. When not tending to livestock and other chores she was out riding her horse around and playing in the woods and fields; a true mother nature’s child. She has nothing but disdain for the majority of city slickers and particularly for lawyers, salesmen, politicians and other people who “run their mouths for a living”. No love for bankers either. She is also very intelligent and quick minded. I’ve learned to never discount her perceptions.
She doesn’t pay attention to “the news” or anyone in government. She concluded a few years back that the whole of the media/politician/lawyer/banker complex is, literally, drunk and high on drugs 24/7/365 and that any attempt to decipher and find meaning in anything any of these people do or say is a fool’s errand. “They’ll tell you anything to distract you while they pick your pocket” is her summation. She thinks me a little dull for not seeing the level of constant intoxication among these people. “they get paid big money to do nothing more than flap their gums and libel people they don’t like at the moment and have no consequences. Why wouldn’t low lives like that be drinking and drinking and having perverted sex all day long? It’s what that type does. You know that. Come on, Eric, get with it”. She further thinks they should all be hung from the nearest available trees (or shot when we run out of tree limbs) because that’s the only solution and the only thing that future aspirants to those roles will understand so as to be kept more or less in line.
Simple, straightforward and probably 100% correct
I talk military sometimes because of my past. But at heart? I am a money guy. I was raised poor white trash, and I was determined to get out of the trailer park. The Army started that process. And it worked. Let’s talk money. And this is all about money. And so is everything in life for that matter. The West hates Russia? Probably. Not enough for a war. But the resources are running out. And they want all those sweet Russian resources. Oil, gas, rare minerals, gold, food. And they don’t want to pay for them. Russia has to fall, and a few oligarchs who will rape their own country for us will have to be put in power. That is our plan. But Russia did not go along. And now? The EU was broke to begin with. Expensive socialist Mommy states that were barely limping along with no defense expenditures and cheap Russian energy. And now? Higher energy costs. Higher defense expenditures. Their aging populaces that require yet more Mommy care and health care. Look at how the EU GDP share of the world had diminished before this war. So how much money does the US spend to prop up Europe with? And for how long? This is a time game. And when the money men realize Russia ain’t folding? Sayonara Europe.
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“Expensive socialist Mommy states that were barely limping along with no defense expenditures and cheap Russian energy. ”
I guess your use of “socialist” here is derogatory.
I guess also you don’t know what socialism really is.
“barely limping along with no defense expenditures” <- if "barely limping" means not traveling to the moon, you are right. We cannot afford that.
"no defense expenditures" <- well, I think more then enough for the enemies that we have (better read answer for 2)
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"So how much money does the US spend to prop up Europe with?"
You don't know the saying by Kissinger, don't you?
"To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal".
Our problem is that we are your good friends (obedient servants). Not so good and not so special as the Ukrainians, luckily for us.
(You -US- are spending money on Europe??? What????? Who are you? Where do you come from? From a time machine?)
Dear Sir,
I’m wondering if this could be true, many people around us are sending money to help the children down there. This News are from today Aljazeera News, and they are giving this from Ukraine.
News
24 Jan 2023
“Ukraine’s Zelenskyy renews war on corruption amid scandals,
President promises changes to government after reports of corruption at defense and infrastructure ministries.”
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he will make changes to the government and security services as part of a renewed crackdown on corruption, nearly a year since Russia invaded the country.”
“In his nightly video address on Monday, Zelenskyy did not name the officials who would be replaced but indicated the reshuffle was imminent.”
I’M SORRY…
I’ve just got the answer ! I Shall request a refund !!!
24 Jan 2023
The Ukrainian government on Tuesday confirmed the resignation of multiple high ranking officials amid large-scale corruption allegations, in what’s being called the biggest mass resignation and graft scandal since the Russian invasion began. A top presidential adviser and four deputy ministers – among these two defense officials…
“…a huge political shake-up over allegations and probes into cases ranging from bribery, to mismanagement of aid funds for purchasing food, to embezzlement, to driving expensive cars while common people suffer under wartime conditions…”
The Kievan Purge:
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/01/24/7386268/
Der Spiegel, Livenews 20 Januar 2023.
Bundesnachrichtendienst from Deutschland warnt vor hohen Verlusten der ukrainischen Armee
13.46 Uhr: Der Bundesnachrichtendienst from Deutschland (BND) ist wegen hoher Verluste der ukrainischen Armee beim Kampf um die strategisch wichtige Stadt Bachmut im Osten des Landes alarmiert. Nach Informationen des SPIEGEL informierte der Auslandsnachrichtendienst diese Woche Sicherheitspolitiker des Bundestags in einer geheimen Sitzung darüber, dass die ukrainische Armee bei Kämpfen mit den russischen Invasoren derzeit täglich eine dreistellige Zahl an Soldaten verliere.
Der BND warnte, dass die Einnahme von Bachmut durch die Russen erhebliche Folgen hätte, da Russland damit weitere Vorstöße ins Landesinnere möglich würden. Der BND berichtete zudem, dass die russische Armee bei Bachmut mit gnadenloser Härte vorgehe. In dem Briefing hieß es, Russland werfe derzeit Soldaten wie Kanonenfutter nach vorn, hohe Verluste der eigenen Streitkräfte spielten bei der Kriegstaktik der Russen offenbar keine Rolle.
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/russland-ukraine-news-am-freitag-britische-geheimdienste-bis-zu-50-000-wagner-soeldner-in-der-ukraine-a-be2408e1-6e72-4325-bc06-29d76e0c4d5e
Hot off the presses..
Ukraine Rocked By Corruption Scandal, Wave Of Top Officials Resign: Sports Cars, Mansions & Luxury Vacations As People Suffered
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-rocked-corruption-scandal-wave-top-official-resignations-sports-cars-mansions
The media is starting to crack as the corruption in Ukraine is just too blatant. Politico, definitely as left as it gets is reporting out on the corruption. Here’s a good article indicative of what’s starting to get closer to mainstream reporting:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-rocked-corruption-scandal-wave-top-official-resignations-sports-cars-mansions
It’ll get where the media has to catch up to the story, as the in-your-face corruption is so bad, even involving key defence people who are profiting off the massive aid at the expense of the fighting soldiers. The truth always seems to find its way out. Of course this kind of news conveniently provides the cover story for why Ukraine loses – it’s those corrupt guys’ fault. They’re losing, the public doesn’t want any more cash thrown away, and presto, the cover story conveniently appears. Isn’t that amazing.
If you can’t be victorious in reality…then why not in fantasy….or the illusion of victory. Little Israel bombs the shit out of some Syrian or Lebanese target every few months like clockwork to reinforce the illusion of their invincibility on a beaten down Arab world….with leading edge modern weapons systems…hiding behind ambiguity of nuclear weapons for decades and their Sampson Option dictating nuclear attacks on the European capitals if Israeli existence was threatened….even though they only relatively recently obtained old munitions from the U.S that where earmarked to be demilitarized. New York Bolsheviks travelled through Germany on a sealed rail car loaded with gold to initiate an action that the German high command hoped would free up millions of fresh German soldiers on the Eastern Front….the guys supplying the gold had other hopes….. interesting to note millions of fresh German soldiers did make it to the Western front where the allied Armies where in serious decline and yet somehow the German government collapsed and signed an armistice much to the frustration and confusion of the German public. Bankers and Bolsheviks…. represented disproportionately by a single large identifiable group that took the brunt because of the actions of a very small vicious minority.
“I doubt Arestovich has CIA protection enabling him to undermine their narrative by dropping truth bombs. He knows what happens to people who speak out against the Kiev regime. He knows far too much about everything that could be damaging to the EU/West narrative…. and yet he’s still alive. Why?”
Maybe he’s the secret figurehead of the Ukrainian opposition to the war party. They came to the conclusion the conflict will be won by Russia and it’s time to prepare peace talks with Putin.
Or… Arestovich placed himself directly under the protection of Russia. Putin’s bet is he’ll be the president of a liberated Ukraine.
(just wild guessing here… my 2 cents… etc etc).
In Germany there are crazy discussions about delivering Leopard 2 to Ukraine.
saying: “this would change everything”.
Everything, except the course of war.
Sad sad sad …
(I’m not disappointed by the SPD. I lived in Germany some years. I know the german SPD is like the “spanish SPD”. A** l***rs. When you don’t expect absolutely anything from somebody, you cannot get disappointed).
Are they using term wunderwaffe, or are they trying to avoid it?
We are sending 30 Abrams to Ukraine.
Vietnam. Take an incredibly corrupt regime. Send it weapons and aid money. Watch it continue to lose. Send “sanitized” volunteers and “deserters”. Bring home their body bags and bury them quietly. Escalate to “advisors”. Bring home their body bags. Bury them with military honors. Send a small contingent of regular troops. Bury them. Send more troops. Bury them. Waste trillions. Slink away. Welcome to Ukraine.
I don’t believe that Russia is in the imperialist mode….they have been there and done that. They know it does not work and with the pesky Caucasus and the almost entire former Central Asian provinces they have their hands full.
There will be a stand off surly with the EU once this Ukraine operation is resolved territory wise and all of this mobilization will be greatly in their favor just to hold things together and keep the peace in the new territories. That is going to be a full time job for the next what, one or two generations? Definitely most probable. The rogue USA and co with harass them mercilessly and indefinitely……so 500k to 1m is what they need once Ukraine capitulates, as sure thing.
The U.S. propaganda/PSYOPS machine is running on autopilot.
I grew up during the Vietnam War. There are still people who parrot the party line on that heinous lie. St. Ronnie called it a “noble effort”. That’s the official position.
We’re currently suffering a crisis at the southern border. Many think this is simply a bunch of no-good foreigners who want welfare or an exciting career at WalMart. No one mentions the decades of the U.S. overthrowing Latin American governments, propping up dictators and training death squads, along with drug running, crushing any hope people might have had in their own countries. No, these people are just lowlife criminals, dragging children and grandparents through dangerous territory to get a free lunch.
How many still swallow The Official 9/11 Tale™? Or that a “lone gunman” killed JFK, RFK and MLK? Or the Covid “pandemic” narrative? How many boosters have you had?
Lying is what the government does, since it considers we the people to be the main enemy. All we hear are lies and that isn’t going to stop until a meteor wipes us out. The job of the MSM is to prop up the lies, legitimize the power structure and make us believe we actually have a choice. The “democracy illusion”.
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Well said.
Well the Ukrainian political elites sure are emulating their US masters…nothing to see here folks, your tax dollars are being well spent protecting a shining example of Western Democracy:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-rocked-corruption-scandal-wave-top-official-resignations-sports-cars-mansions
Hey I know let’s send Zelensky some M1 MBTs that’s sure to bring Russia to its knees:
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/both-us-germany-now-leaning-toward-authorizing-heavy-tanks-ukraine
I am not pro-Ukrainian or pro-Russian…but anyone with half a brain can see how this is going to play out…not even the “holy hand grenade” can save the Ukraine (vice Monty Python’s “Holy Grail”)
Larry & friends,
Wagner convicts are 10%, Russian source. How big is Wagner? My guestimate is a max of two divisions. During their surrounding & break in of Soledar, two sides of the encirclement were held by Russian paratroops, so ?
Europe in ww2, mostly collaborated, until late in the war, & the Serbs fought like hell. France had a lot of Spanish Republicans, refugees from the Spanish Civil War. The apocryphal story is of retreating French soldiers dropping their rifles & Spanish refugees working on the road, picking up the rifles & walking toward the Germans. After the Germans occupied all of France, anyone with a Spanish passport was picked up & sent to the extermination camp at Mathausen; 150k liquidated. Resistance late in the was communist led.
Isn’t the NACBU a US controlled group used to silence anyone deemed necessary?
It appears there could be a purge in motion. Add in Biden’s secret document scandal and the looming defeat of NATO’s 3rd army, can all this be part of the exit strategy?
I believe all the Abrams and Leopards will be used to arm whatever is left of rump Ukraine.
The purge began immediately after CIA Head William Burns’ unannounced visit to Kiev. I doubt that’s a random coincidence. “Corruption” is of course a cover story, but what is it covering? IMHO, it’s covering for the CIA’s taking direct control of the regime. The question is to what end.
Is it to manage the capitulation, preventing a wholesale collapse of the regime, or to ensure close coordination between the regime and a planned NATO/Coalition military incursion?
The Abrams & Leopards may be intended to arm what is left of a rump Ukraine, but I doubt it. Russia would not allow any rump UA to exist that wasn’t at least neutral. An armed, hostile rump is a Loss for Russia. Ain’t gonna happen.
I doubt that more than a handful of either will go to the front. They’re both very heavy, requiring specialized transport and would in any case do little more than provide target practice for the Russians. It’s more likely (IMHO) that they’re intended to secure Poland’s acquisition of 3 or 4 Oblasts in western UA, and/or to secure Odessa without which NATO’s UA Project becomes an overt, 100% failure.
That’s huge news about Predtechino and Stupochek, from a very interesting source. It looks like the Russians are having their way deep in the operational rear of Ukraine’s Bakhmut forces and could even cut off Chasov Yar.
The purge may be to make way for the Americans to secure their economic interests. It may be to plunder as much as possible before the inevitable Russian take-over. Alternatively it may be to prepare for negotiations down the line which will keep 20% of the agricultural land on Blackrock’s hands.
Maybe they’re still so deluded that they think they can prevent Russia from winning, but I have a feeling that at some point in time they will think more about money than the battlefield. Anyway, the purged guys were apparently closer to Britain, so now there’s one less player in the game.