Yesterday three Western supplied drone boats attacked a Russian ship guarding the Turkstream pipeline. Russia claims all were destroyed but there is video that suggests one hit the Russian ship. This attack is the latest in a series of events over the last three weeks where Ukraine is hitting targets in Russia with U.S. and British supplied weapons. In addition to this maritime drone attack Ukraine has carried out the following:
- A cross border incursion in the Belgorod region with U.S. supplied vehicles and weapons. The attack was repulsed with heavy losses on the Ukrainian side.
- Sporadically launching artillery and himars attacks on Russian civilians towns along the border
- A drone attack on the Kremlin.
- The use of British Storm Shadow cruise missiles to hit targets in Russia.
None of these attacks are “game changers” in terms of the strategic picture, they are fueling a rising tide of anger in Russia that is likely to ratchet up pressure for a stronger military response. The maritime attack on the Russian ship guarding the Turkstream pipeline is especially puzzling because it is indirectly an attack on a member of NATO (i.e., Turkiye). Just what NATO needs, alienating the NATO member with the second largest army in NATO.
The media is discounting the possibility that was sanctioned by the U.S. or the U.K. and suggesting it was carried out by Ukraine without consulting its NATO partners. However, my new friend, Steve Bryen, has an excellent piece posted at the Asia Times on the Turkstream pipeline incident that explains why this was not a unilateral Ukrainian operation:
There are a number of disturbing facts about this operation.
The first is that the Ukrainians were preparing to attack the Turkstream pipeline and needed to knock out the Russian ship helping to guard it. Turkstream moves natural gas at an annual capacity of 31.5 billion cubic meters and consists of two 930-kilometer offshore lines and two separate onshore lines that are 142 kilometers (88.2 miles) and 70 kilometers long.
One of the customers for Russian gas from this pipeline is Hungary. It would deal a substantial blow to Hungary if Turkstream were destroyed, and that could lead to a government upheaval in that country. Hungary, under Viktor Orbán, is regarded by Washington as pro-Russian. . . .
The Ukrainians carried out this operation in the Bosporus, around 80 miles from the Turkish mainland. It is reasonable to say that this attack wasn’t just on the Russians, but it was the first part of an attack on a NATO ally, Turkey and other gas consumers, especially Hungary – also a NATO ally.
The long distance from Ukraine proper suggests that Ukraine would have needed real-time intelligence to locate the Russian ship and target it.
Here comes the disturbing part. Reportedly there was a US RQ-4 remotely piloted surveillance aircraft in the vicinity of this incident. The RQ-4 could have provided real-time targeting information and also could have relayed the same information to the Ukrainian unmanned naval drone. While there is no hard evidence that the RQ-4 played any role, how else could Ukraine have managed this operation?
While the United States and the rest of NATO are feigning ignorance about the attack, the key fact is that Ukraine needed targeting data that only NATO intelligence sources could provide. This means that the United States played a direct role in this attack. When you add this incident to the cross-border incursion in the Belgorod region where U.S.-supplied vehicles carried out the attack, Russia can only conclude that the United States in becoming more involved in the war against Russia.
This marks a dangerous escalation in the war and Russia is unlikely to shrug it off as insignificant. Besides the maritime drone attack, two U.S. B-1 bombers in the Baltic flew close to Russian air space and were intercepted by Russian fighter planes. Add to this the recent Biden reversal giving the green light to send F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine and the deployment in late 2022 of elements of the 101s and 82nd airborne units in Poland and Romania respectively. Those troops are still there.
Russia also is carefully watching the upcoming NATO exercise, Air Defender 23:
Air Defender 23 will be the most significant military exercise ever carried out over the European skies. The event will take place from June 12th until June 23rd, involving the air forces of 25 nations.
More specifically, Air Defender 23 will represent the most extensive deployment exercise of air forces in the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, commonly known as NATO. The unprecedented event will involve up to 10,000 exercise participants who will train their flying skills with approximately 220 aircraft. The military exercise will take place in European airspace and under the command of the German Air Force, or Luftwaffe.
While NATO can pretend that this is just a routine exercise, a “training” operation of this size and scale against the backdrop of heightened tensions in the region is akin to lighting a match in a gasoline storage tank. It increases the possibility of the war in Ukraine expanding to a full blown conflict with NATO.
It appears that the United States is prepared to take more desperate, ill-advised actions in the wake of the Ukrainian defeat at Bakhmut. There are no gestures of conciliation emanating from Washington. Just the opposite — more bellicose rhetoric and actions.
Russia, for its part, is not sitting on its hands. In the early hours of Friday, Ukrainian TG-channels reported on Geraniums UAV and aerial bomber attacks in Sumy, Chernigov and Zapozhye regions, as well as in Dnepropetrovsk region. Explosions also are reported in Kupyanskiy district of Kharkov region tonight. Yesterday, Russia hit he dam at the Karlovskoye reservoir, which is 40 km north-west of Donetsk and is a critical supply route for Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk region. This makes it more difficult for Ukraine to supply its forces on the East side of the Volcha river and creates more obstacles Ukraine must surmount if it hopes to launch a successful counter-offensive.
It appears that Russia’s three week long bombing campaign — using strategic bombers — is taking a toll on the forces Ukraine has been assembling for their long awaited counter offensive. Ukrainian losses are making it difficult to assemble the the man power and fire power required to launch and sustain an offensive operation beyond a few days. We will know for certain within the coming weeks.
I will put it simply — we are living in the most dangerous time in World history since the start of World War II. The United States is showing no sign of backing down from its effort to keep the war going in Ukraine in the futile hope of weakening Russia. And Russia is intensifying its operations to decimate Ukraine’s military capabilities. This appears to be a toxic recipe for a horrendous collision. I hope I am wrong.
About the attack on the vessel guarding the Turkstream – in my opinion, the anglo-americans are trying to do to Turkiye what they did to the Germans – to cut them off from cheap energy source – but in a deniable way (i.e. the Ukries went rogue).
After all, unlike the Germans, the Turkish armed forces are the second-largest in NATO (even if you count the Ukies), had a significant anti-terrorist experience and could make the life very difficult for the US ops in Syria. Not to mention that, if the turks obtain proof that the US was behind the attack, it would move them much further in the russian camp.
Oh, and let not forget that there are presidential elections currently going on in Turkiye, and the things aren’t going well for the pro-American candidate.
And wouldn’t that be delicious unintended blowback?
It seems everything these Ziocons do results in consequences opposite to what they intended.
If your enemy is screwing up don’t interfere. Isn’t that what Putin is doing?
why always insult Israel gratuitously?
Not all the world’s problems are the Zionists’ fault.
Do you really want to go there?
Zionism is like Nazism. They both are despicable supremacist ideologies.
Zionism seeks to avoid another genocide like the one a short time ago that was supported by most of the world. And you still do.
Now that’s funny
the most problems are.
There is another side to the coin.
All these pokes make it more and more clear to the population, that the RF is not fighting a war, but some sort of a holding operation, that is killing tens of thousands of Russians…and “ukranians”.
The simple fact, that while territorial defense units have been in preparation, training for about 6 mnths on the border regions, the RF is is unwilling to arm them even with small arms indicates an unnatural fear of the elites towards their charges.
The anger is pulpable.
Voices, even in the Duma are talking about two Russias.
One – dying in the trenches, towns and cities under daily artillery fire, incursions, drone attacks.
The other – children and relatives of the elite tiktokking from exotic localles.
Not unlike their counterparts in 404.
At all…
True. I think you would be interested in the following:
https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/prigozhin-reveals-tens-of-thousands
Rolo Slavsky is a known rabid russophobe.
Why would ya say that?
Tc seeing that your comment has no basis of fact, I suggest that you should not really comment. For a start their is no conscription in the Russian military. Volunteers on contracts who sign a contract that binds them to being reservists after their military contract. The so called western conscription was the recalling or calling up already trained military persons for remobilisation and upgraded training or retraining.
These are part of the 200,000 to 300,000 plus Russian soldiers in the area of Eastern Ukraine and likely in Belarus. The others are trained volunteers who are contracted and then there are the Chechens and Wagner Group.
As for your comments on the elite and the “voices in the Duma and tik-toking from exotic locations” – absolute rubbish and as an Australian, clearly stated unadulterated BS.
The support for the Russian Government and Putin in particular from the people is in excess of 80% if not approaching into the 90%.
You do not push the bear or prod the bear and you do not push Russian people. How do I know, my partner is Russian and she has family in Russia.
Please do not make up so called facts which only have one fact – they are rubbish.
Aight. Hold on tight.
I have said, that along the border regions My Russkies are ready to fight, have been training, yet the establishment is not issuing weapons to the formed units. My conclusion is, that the system is afraid of them local forces. Why? Because they will have power to interfere with – even the local
– the stabilized lines of corruption.
As to the elite`s dependents tiktokking:
I am embarrassed to even look for it. Seen it once, one times too many times. Does Lavrov
v`s child live in London? How about Shoigu`s kin?
Under a SWIFT ban and all the goodies…while flicking snot into the direction of his dad in law. Safely…their cash-cards seem to be working.
There seem to be a deposit of funds behind these people – untouched, or untouchable by the powers, that be, that unconnected the Russian State from Swift. Because….?
I am absolutely convinced, that they have earned it. By birth.
I am also absolutely convinced – that their version of globohomo is:
OVAH.
To give ya another insight: I am also Russian, as Your partner is. I was born in Moscow.
Tied with a million of strings to 404 – which is also Russia.
I actually speak the language – to a degree.
Look, I understand your concern – and I share it with ya.
…but I do not lie. Ever.
When shit rolls my way, I celebrate. Trust me.
Please, do not paint me as a fuckhead from the other side. Please?
I am HARD against the globo-homo-schlomo-pedo.
I understand.
You all want Russia to fuck up all the previous fucked arrangements…without YOU paying the price in blood in Your own landz…
Am I right?
“I am HARD against the globo-homo-schlomo-pedo.”
I agree with that australian participant.
You should not comment.
This is plain bs. It is not that US&NATO is “globo-homo-schlomo-pedo” and you are beings made of pure virtue.
It is f**s stupid to talk about “globo-homo-….” when it only goes about money and resources and power.
There are also homosexuals in Russia, in Saudi Arabia .. the only difference is that you torture and kill them (or they commit suicide because of the attacks).
In other countries, they can become presidents. So what?
What a sh….
Not sure why Lavrov’s daughter studying in England should go out to fight……….after all Poroschenko’s son lives in London and he has a penis so he could fight…….
I know a Teddy Roosevelt, Jr died in WW2 in France and Kermit Roosevelt committed suicide in Alaska………but I did not know LBJ’s daughters went to Vietnam or even sons of George Bush or even Bill Clinton or Dick Cheney or even Donald Trump……..
Maybe Americans should focus on their own political elites ?
Is that the conversation we are having?
Of what % supporsts the Tzar?
Ye?
Or KILL globo-homo-schlomo-pedo.
Well…good luck.
Get the fuck out of here.
I know who you are. the borg….berg…
You will excuse me…😊
I wish you a merry hollycaust celeb.
To You all. For another year to come.
Merry Holycost!
Nice attempt at FUD… now bugger off to your masters in Langley and tell them to give you your bubble gum.
Yes Miss Nuland! Go shovel another kugal in your pie-hole. That will calm your anxieties.
Easier to identify these guys on twitter when they have that blue and yellow sticker stuck to them.
At this point Victoria’s depraved and blood spattered project is spiraling out of control but she and her handlers are doing everything they can to save face and prop up the deteriorating facade of American order, and try to convince everyone at home and abroad that they have the situation under control.
They are all acting like desperate, psychotic, cornered rats which means that they will only become more dangerous.
Heil Schicklgrubber, Komarad. Zeluzhiny may be dead or a vegetable, but clearly the Western Ukiebots are still alive and kicking.
Maybe your other side of the coin is a shekel, now having more stability than the dollar (ironically provided by many, many dollars). But if it is a shekel it is nothing but hasbara.
Do you mean da jewz Ms Ariadna?
De jewz, like Herr marx, lenin and trockij?
Or the jewz like zelenski blinken and newland?
Or jews like kolomoijski, khodorkovski, deripaska and kasparov?
You sure can’t be talking about the jewz like soros, epstein bankman-freed, yellen now would ya?
That would be anti-semantic…😂
Anyone know anything concrete about this General SVR? (RU Foreign Intelligence Service)
He claims to be a lieutenant general in the SVR with direct inside information and is on the agenda for overthrowing Putin.
Channels mostly on telegram but yt and twitter too.
General themes: Putin sick and dying, doubles everywhere, military incompetent, can’t defend itself, infighting, hundreds of thousands of RU casualties, etc, etc.
Can’t figure out who, what, where from – an RU dissident scraping up bitcoin contribs? Ukrainian?, US player?, disinfo agent, legit SVR insider? (my last choice), whatever.
https://twitter.com/svr_general
Don’t color me naive. I just have an acquaintance that follows this guy religiously.
” in my opinion, the anglo-americans are trying to do to Turkiye what they did to the Germans – to cut them off from cheap energy source – but in a deniable way (i.e. the Ukries went rogue).”
There could be a video of Hunter Biden and Vlad Zelensky, personally launching a drone-bomb at TurkStream, moreover there could be a CNN crew filming them doing it while naked and smoking crack and still the US would face no sanctions.
This is the kind of power the US wields over its vassals and much of the world.
“a video of Hunter Biden and Vlad Zelensky, personally launching a drone-bomb at TurkStream”
Why would this shock more than the recently released photos from Hunter’s laptop showing him engaging in horrible pedophile acts with very young girls? Who cares about the Turkstream? The Germans themselves did not care (at least their Chancellor did not) about their pipeline being blown up by “us.”
To most (many) Americans it is justifiable to attack any opponents (or even just non-supporters) of the war on Russia. Even the vaunted pacifist RFK, Jr.explained that his son went to fight as a volunteer in Harkov (i.e., to kill Russians) based on the “American values” of “rooting for the underdog”…
Maybe if the little girl Hunter was violating was Russian he would be excused
The Biden Administration and the Rothschild Class has apparently lost control of the Nuland et.al. NeoCon Cabal, as Cookies Vickie is making policy statements that far exceed Sleepy Joe’s banal and useless F-16 dance-of-the-seven-veils. It is almost as if the Cabal sent Biden’s crowd off on a F-16 fool’s errand for the MSM to ballyhoo while the “real” incitement of attacking Belgorod and Turkstream is carried out, creating the latest version of “reality” as stated by Karl Rove. How do these treasonous clowns stay in their jobs?
To publicly (or even via the backrooms?) rein in the Cabal would signal more political “weakness” and division in the Biden Debacle Administration… as if anyone paying the least attention hasn’t already noticed. As one prominent example, why else would the Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria be making nice? Because they know the US is powerless to prevent it, nukes or not. And if the Arab League doesn’t stand together, The Cabal and Mossad/CIA will pick them off one at a time.
Turns out war may NOT be good for business, especially any business that relies on stable currencies, low inflation/debt and reliable resource chains. The US problem is that their insane MIC spending is accounting-wise considered a positive in GDP terms, instead of ultimately being a driver for the overt destruction of peaceful productivity and stability domestically and worldwide. Take the US MIC spending out of GDP and the US looks increasingly economic banana-republic-ish. Too much debt, a fiat currency that survives on money-printing… sorry, Quantitative Easing, and a gov’t riddled with factions and ideological stupidity.
The US public is under the collective delusion that the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will keep Island America safe from direct attack, this is just another EurAsian war… Will they learn before the first Russian conventional-tipped hypersonic trashes an ICBM silo in Montana shortly after an F-16 that took off from a Romanian or Polish airfield with a NATO pilot drops serious ordinance on Crimea or Russia proper?
The Nuclear Deterrent has always been the US’s post-WW2 ultimate threat, sold to the US public as 1/2 of MAD. The logic being, the US can do pretty much what it wants and no one dares confront the US/ZATO for fear of a nuke first strike. But that threat is all but moot now. Hopefully the pointless bellicosity of the Biden Admin, including the rogue NeoCon Cabal, will be seen for the foolhardy hubristic boasting it is. This is also a warning to Israel to stop threatening neighbours based on having UNDECLARED nukes as the ultimate threat.
As much as Putin has tried to keep Israel contained, Nuttyyahoo must know Russia won’t tolerate his warmongering and apartheid scam much longer, no matter how much the Rothschilds Class or the US backs the Zionist Cabal. Again, Russian hypersonics would hit the Israeli silos and mobile launchers before the start-up procedure was complete. But the Russians don’t want huge portions of the Zionists now in Israel “going home” to Ukraine or Russia. Think the second half of the Balfour Declaration… the Rothschilds demanded the Israeli Biblical “homeland” back, they got it, now shut up and stop stealing more land for “Greater Israel/Yinon Plan”.
Erdogan will probably win the election, as the 3rd position candidate threw his support to Erdogan. Better to try to keep a foot in both camps than 100% side with the US… just like Macron said on his way back from China.
The Magic Dirt theory of North America…or Meehico Nord in native language miho.
Look, as the idiocracy spreads, I am pretty sure some enterprising cholo/chola, it, will take a screwdriver to a nuke-sub, missile and ordnance.
It is inevitable.
Of course the USA is poking the bear, and it will continue to do this. The USA may stop this when the Ukrainian army surrendered. Maybe.
But: Why is the bear not poking the Yankees? Afraid of a nuclear answer? Afraid that the bric States may condemn it?
Russia expects that time is in favour of them. Is this really the case?
As long as the war is not won, the risk of a nuclear escalation exists.
And after the victory? How will the West look like?
This is not about a battle, but about the whole world…
Nuland already said that they’ve been planning this counter-offensive for 6 months and that June’s NATO exercises will coincide with Ukrainian counter-attacks. What that means is anyone’s guess. She has a big mouth, that’s for sure.
Biggest threat to western security in the last 70 years – America’s neocons.
FSB may have been behind the endless derailed trains in the US as well as factories blown up. Medias just keep it under the carpet
The US has been experiencing around 1500 train derailments per year since 2005, with no appreciable uptick since the start of the SMO: https://time.com/6260906/train-derailmentments-how-common/
So it’s unlikely the FSB needs to add to the tally; the US rail network is doing a peachy job without any help. As for factories blowing up, same thing. Why bother when the target is doing it for you.
The US has been experiencing around 1500 train derailments per year since 2005
Well, you knew that one of Papa Biden’s many Equal Opportunity efforts for Jr. was to place him on the Amtrak board of directors, based on Jr’s accompanying qualification letter “I’ve ridden Amtrak many many times.”
There you go.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oFEefgpGdXw
The Fsb did a great job 😂
Yes, afraid of this, afraid of that. The essence of geopolitics are emotions. It’s not like Russia is the adult in the room, trying to deescalate situation with a school-shooter-to-be packed with guns and explosives, and minimize total casualties.
If this is indeed about the whole World, then Russians are taking blows for the team, and keeping their cool. Instead of talking shit, maybe you should pray that they keep their cool, because that’s the only thing that’s preventing the end of the world as we know it (if you are afraid of that happening, that is).
Dass raysiss syster. White priviledge Russkiez.
Dat shit ain’t no fly here no mo. Yu dig?
I share their concern. For several reasons.
1. I expect a coup in the United States. It will be called a Democratic coup. But to me, the Democrats are one side of the coin and the Republicans are the other. The real power is with the 0.1%. They will call it an election. But it will be just a staging.
2. the USA will solve the inability to pay as it always has. But that will not solve the fundamental systemic problem. On the contrary, it will only postpone and magnify the problem.
3. there is a belief in the world that China and other countries would rather give up their dollar claims and thus put an end to the dollar empire. Yes, that would hurt China. But China is a manufacturing nation and would be able to live with it. The empire would collapse immediately.
4. …. Because of point 3. In parallel, it is only a matter of time that the BRICS+ and numerous other interested parties put their commodity-based trading currency into practice. We don’t know anything for sure. But we can be sure that it won’t be too long until that moment.
5. the Nazi regime cannot sustain this war for much longer. Especially not in terms of personnel. What then? And that brings us to our fear.
6. Russian officials always spoke about a “proxy war”. For the first time, people, such as Lavrov and Shoigu, are talking about a “NATO invasion.” In addition, these officials call this “NATO invasion” a continuation of Hitler’s invasion. This is, in my opinion, new. It should be noted that Russia has always used very sophisticated and diplomatic language. But the language suggests that in Moscow the timing of the USNATO’s open entry into the war is already known.
7. SIMPLICIUS writes about the fact that historically always the month of June was the beginning of an invasion of Russia. Because of the sticky ground in autumn. In June this USNATO maneuver will take place. We should watch out for a false flag. After that 24/7 all mainstream media will announce: “Now we will shoot back!”.
” the Democrats are one side of the coin and the Republicans are the other” – you’re not far from the truth. If I remember my history correctly, for at least four decades these two used to be a single party, founded by Thomas Jefferson.
As for the voting issue – there is a saying in Bulgaria: за когото и да гласуваш, все лошите идват на власт. Roughly translated it means: no matter for whom you vote, the bad guys always come into power.
In case of US, UK and mostly countries in EU, totally agree.
We have a saying in America…
“The worst always get on top.”
It is a reflection of what happens when you concentrate power. It will attract the worst people in society (think sociopaths and psychopaths), who will then use the levers of power to enrich themselves and control other humans. We’ve all heard Lord Acton”s saying about how power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This is why anarchism is so attractive to some. Anarchism literally means “no rulers”. It doesn’t mean “no rules,” but rather “no ruleRs.”. Thus, everyone under anarchism is the ruler of their own domain.
Also called: The scum always rises to the surface.
It is called “Kakistocracy”
It is called “Kakistocracy”
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I don’t see any way we going to be able to vote our way out of this.
Ah, the first rumblings of the demise of the democratic charade.
It always starts there. Washington’s only hope is that there are those in foreign lands that would not do as Washington does but….heck, it’ll say they do it anyway.
Unfortunately, the only way to vote away in EU is with your feet, i.e. to move to a better location. Another way is not to vote at all and live under the radar (it’s actually achievable in Eastern Europe).
In US, especially the Texans, they still have the option to vote with their index finger – you know, the one usually used to pull the trigger 😉
There already has been a coup d’etat in the US. As you suggests, it looked like the Democrats but it was really just the Uniparty.
Now I grant you, it was carried out not by the military – though they played a supporting role – but by lawyers, judges, special prosecutors, intel bureaucrats and finally, mail-in ballots.
It took four damn years, from 2016 to 2021. That’s how we Anglo-Saxons do coups: In slow motion, with guys in suits and robes, and lots of silly ‘rule of law’ kabuki.
I may have exotic tastes, but I like my coups d’etat Afghan style: Tanks on the streets, mutinous pilots bombing loyalist bases, armed checkpoints everywhere and firefights in the presidential palace.
thank you Larry for a rare voice of sanity in an increasingly insane world. Whoever is running pres. Biden and the rest of the western leaders and pushing the situation to the brink of nuclear war must think that either Russian weapons would fail to launch or that U.S. missile deffence would intercept them all. Its not hard at all to believe those fantasies after reading all the propaganda that’s been fed to the western public about the incompetence and disorganization of the Russian Armed Forces and just how badly they’re losing. Underestimating your opponent is exactly the kind of thing that leads to a serious butt-kicking. In the end we won’t be sitting around discussing who started it. We’ll likely be discussing how to survive another day.
Well it seems the US-EU Neoliberal banking mafia is increasingly involved in the business of buying time to keep their crumbling edifice from collapsing . The exercise in EU that’s supposed to be the biggest since WWII is a way of deflecting attentions away from NATO’s certain defeat in Ukraine. By the way the chief of the US military says there’s no point in sending a dozen or so F-16 to Ukraine since it will do nothing against 1000+ advanced jets fighters of Russia. Besides it costs about 2 billion dollars maintaining a few F-16’s. Also, there’s going to be a joint Russia-China-Iran – neighboring Arab nations – India military exercise in the Persian Gulf – Oman Sea – Indian Ocean coming soon, which might happen on the same day as the big one of NATO on June 12.
I do not think the Turks will swallow this goose, as the Germans did with Nordstream. Their interior minister already put the blame on the USSA about the terrorist bombings in the country a few months back.
I agree. If Erdogan holds on to power and the US tries to blow up the pipeline, I wouldn’t expect Turkiye to take it lying down. I think blowing up the pipeline could further weaken NATO, as countries like Turkiye and Hungary may just decide to leave NATO. If that happens, all the better. NATO is over 30 years past it’s sell-by date.
I don’t believe in the rogue theory this time either.
Moreover
The Turks as a people and their present leadership are sensitive to their national interests.
If their critical infrastructure comes under threat, they will not take the matter lightly.
It’s likely their security services are investigating the failed attack thoroughly right now.
If this goes any further, it should not be assumed that the Turkish side might be as unresponsive as the Germans and their leadership were before and have been since the destruction of THEIR infrastructure.
It all depends on the countries in which the US can install puppets. As you can see they have succeded in the Ukraine and Pakistan. Recently tried in Kazakhstan and other countries in the McKinder pivot area. You can bet the efforts to bring Turkey under control are very significant. Turkey plays on the fence dangerously but with great skill. It is in an extremely important location, to say the least.
There isn’t ‘A Sade Heaven’ for anyone, despite theyr Shelter, if WW3 will start.
A Safe Heaven.
I think you were right the first time. Sade Heaven, as in Marquis de…
It’s either a Safe Haven, or Sade Heaven (which is probaby LGBTS&M version). 🙂
I would not put it past Erdogan (after reelection) that Turkiye will close the straits into the Black Sea for all warships belonging to states outside the region, i e. specifically from USA and UK. He must save the Turkstream pipeline.
They are already closed as part of treaty when any nation in Black Sea is involved in war.
Bidet, or more precisely Bidet’s owners and controllers, are desperate for some kind of “victory” to have any chance of winning the DayMockRatIck tribe nomination. Also if Ukranazistan goes belly up, this will be Bidet’s second military defeat after Afghanistan. In that case his owners will have to resort to such blatant cheating to “win” in 2024 that any second term will be totally delegitmised.
At the same time, this is a major warning that those who imagine Russia can wait forever to win are wrong. The longer this goes on, the more desperate the Amerikastani Empire gets, the greater the potential for open war. At some point Russia will have to go in for the kill.
Did Dreizin ban you from his site? I guess talking shit about Larry, Martyanov, etc. didn’t make him love you. Now you should work on Larry banning you, in order to get full house. This one will be the hardest.
Best of luck with that
It’s not a matter of “waiting forever.” It’s a matter of watching your prey like a cat and pounce at exactly the right moment. It’s all about timing. If Putin had given in to the hardliners and move into Ukraine in 2014, Russia would be toast by now because it would have been unprepared for the sanctions war.
More and more I believe that at the core of the problems is the inability of the Zionist Neocons to accept defeat in their project of one world government.
Ten years ago, I’d have treated that as a well worn conspiracy theory.
No more.
There is a book by John Michael Greer, published in 2015, titled “Twilight’s Last Gleaming”. One of the chinese characters in that book gives a very good explanations why it’s so. Spoiler alert: the book’s story ends with the dissolution of the United States around 2030 😉
Brilliant novel; very clearly delineates the pathologies that have lead to the situation we are in today.
Was hoping that it would never become reality but sometimes real life does imitate speculative fiction 🙁
I agree with you; they must be destroyed; they are not agreement capable.
Its happened many times in the history of Christendom, God willing, it will happen here, again.
There could be rogue elements in American intelligence agencies and the deep state who might have provided the targeting data without the knowledge of the chain of command in the hope of punishing Hungary and Turkiye to show to the rest of the vassals what happens when you speak the wrong things. They might even be desperate for a World War III. After all the USA is close to becoming a defaulter. Better to goad the bear into making the first move. Then of course the military logic of hegemony takes over all aspects of policies both domestic and international. Domestically, a war economy again works its miracles and dissidents can be harassed and imprisoned a la McCarthy in the 60’s. Internationally, collateral damage becomes acceptable so that the weaker part of pro-Russia the fraternity gets hurt. Truly worrying situation.
“Rogue elements”, “without the knowledge”? USA have been feeding Ukraine targeting data all this time, and it’s not even a secret. They surely have location of all the ships in real time.
The question is, if someone in the USA gave a green light for this specific attack. My answer is: hell yeah! This is child’s play compared to Nord Stream.
Turkey needs to get their act together and patrol that pipeline themselves.
Better still, Turkey and Russia should agree on a joint mission to patrol the pipeline together. A joint mission between Russia and Nato member Turkey would royally piss off the US.
It’s a silly game the US is playing in claiming that Ukraine does anything independently. If someone was aiding destructive neighbors in any way, then I would blame the aid provider as much as the destructive neighbor. Really, I would blame the conniving buttinsky more.
The US thinks it’s got Ukraine on a leash and then wonders why the rabid animal bites uncontrollably.
We’re finally paying the price for having installed so many mental midgets and mental cases into the White House.
The US is no stranger to NATO-on-NATO crime, just ask the Germans about Nordstream.
And surely the US holds Germany in higher esteem than either Turkiye or Hungary, so the US “didn’t mind” the Ukies “going rogue” (translation: the US directed the Ukies to do this).
The only question left is: How long till Sy Hersch puts an article proving it was the CIA and the Biden Admin ?
One last thing. At this time in history, it seems like navy ships are a very easy target, whether for missiles or for drones. The US might consider how well their own missile/drone magnets will hold up if they ever feel the need to use them.
The UK, Poland, andor Ukraine would never pull that one to keep Germany from leaving the coalition of the willing. It serves to destroy the German middleclass too, which is only in the interests of some.
Larry says: This appears to be a toxic recipe for a horrendous collision. I hope I am wrong.
I don’t think you are. The western fanatics pushing this war are lunatics.
One hell of a way to go. At the mercy of lunatics.
The UK are playing with fire!
Oh well. At least this isn’t an island nation reliant upon undersea pipelines for our critical infrastructure?
Oh wait!🤔
As westerners our natural instinct is to hit back if provoked, we are not a patient culture. As to Russians, we really don’t know what their game plan to achieve their objectives is, to date they seem to stick to it regardless of provocation. Several high ranking people have spoken about this being a long war, so I imagine they is exactly what they have planned for. One imagines anyone has a point where they will react, is this what the neocons are pushing at?
As to these latest events, by most reports NATO is running this war, I find it absurd to imagine they don’t approve every act, and that would include war crimes as we have just seen the German government shown to be covering them up despite a General refusing to train Ukrainians due to that.
As westerners? You think hitting back when provoked is some western ‘exceptionalist’ thing? Then you ask about the Russians?
Man, you are WAY in over your head on what’s making this thing tick.
FYI: The Russians are two hair’s breadth away from letting it rip, with that last intolerable nudge. I know them. I can see it in their actions, their faces, their speeches and their body language. Meanwhile, we’re pumping speedballs into that UA Tasmanian devil on their doorstep.
We’re playing with fire. Believe it.
Yep. The goal of these attacks is to make Russia overreact, and use that as a “Pearl Harbor moment”. If we can see that, Russians can too.
So do they believe Russia’s nuclear arsenal is inert? I’ve always been puzzled why many argue that the West/NATO wants to get involved.
I know U.S. senators have talked about the need for the U.S. military to get involved directly and wipe out the Russian Army so I guess the thinking is Russia will allow its military to be decimated by the U.S. military and then back down and not escalate to nuclear?
I seem to see a lot of stuff about U.S. looking for a casus belli to get involved in wrecking the Russian military so maybe they think the Russian nuclear force is not a real threat? Maybe the Pentagon war planners know something we don’t?
The way I see it, they believe they can make Russia collapse without firing nukes, like Soviet Union did. USA politicans think that they made USSR collapse, and want to rinse and repeat. Since USA does not want to get involved directly, “Pearl Harbor moment” is to strong of a term. More like “half of Pearl Harbor moment”, or “COVID++ moment”. Something that could justify switching to war economy, without full on war. Proxies are supposed to do fighting, as usual. Planners in Pentagon know that there are nukes with their names written on them.
“USA politicans think that they made USSR collapse” – and this how much the US politicos are deluded. Anyone, who reviews the events back then objectivly, would realise that the USA haven’t won; the russians stopped playing. Unfortunately, after that, the russian security services lost the plot for almost a decade, until Vladimir Vladimirovitch was designated acting president in 1999. The rest, they say, is a history 😉
US politicians are motor-mouths in a culture that likes to hear Big Words – it makes them feel big and swells up inside – when it comes to delivery they are weak
Everyone knows the US is a blowhard juvenile delinquent
@Organic
I think that you are 100% correct here. Russia does not have to be in a hurry. Their economy is humming along. Arms factories running 24×7. Contrast this with Europe which no longer has a cheap source of energy for their manufacturing. Ukraine is running out of troops and the west out of arms. Time is on Russia’s side. The biggest concern is that the west unwilling to accept defeat decides on a desperate course of action that leads to a nuclear war.
Prior to the Ukraine war I would not have thought that this was a real possibility but listening to pronouncements by the western leadership this looks like an outcome that can’t be discounted.
I think the answer is both. We have already explained that the neocons do not have a reverse gear, but the Ukrainians are also so desperate because of the great human losses and defeats that they are ready for anything. The West is yet to see what kind of monster it has created in Ukraine. In all this madness, Mark Milley once again sounds like the voice of reason. Yesterday he said that the F-16 is not a miracle weapon, that the Ukrainians have no chance of returning the territories in the near future, although he also said that Russia cannot occupy the whole of Ukraine. It is a kind of consolation for the West, that “the Russians will not occupy the whole of Ukraine”, even though the Russians do not want that. I remind you that half a year ago, after the withdrawal of the Russians from Kherson, Milley said that the Ukrainians could no longer count on territorial gains and that it might be time to start negotiations. Of course, the neocons did not listen to him, and in the meantime, the Ukrainians lost territories and tens of thousands of people.
If that’s a true starlink antenna in the diagram, Musk better get off his ass and cut the damn link before this goes any further. Maniacs are at the helm.
Might be a little off the beaten track here but I gotta wonder which senators received Sat phones. These would be elitists of interest, do they know something? Maybe going the distance with Russia was the plan all along if they couldn’t get the job done in Ukraine/from Ukraine. We have been told that millions have been spent on iodine (iodide?) pills as well, at least we aren’t yet seeing them being passed out. Waste of money actually if we did have a nuclear war. Won’t be enough left to pick up with a fork and spoon.
Satellite mobile phones only work if their are satellites…..
Iodine pills thing is just extra profit for Big Pharma. It’s easy money.
Maybe not. With the hypersonic missiles and low yield warheads it could be possible to strike a decapitation blow and leave most of the country intact.
Honestly if DC were taken out I doubt too many tears would be shed even here at home.
No. We are not living in the most dangerous time in World history since the start of World War II. There were no nukes then.
We are living (?) in the most dangerous time in World history since the origin of the species.
If we screw this up badly enough, then we go the way of the dinosaurs. It is just that simple.
Everyone knows this, but instead of putting the architects of this disaster up against a wall, we’re going to stand around gaping and waiting for some deus ex machina to save us.
How embarrassing.
Hi Larry,
This is Aleks from Black Mountain Analysis.
Your last sentences are also roaming since weeks in my head.
As you maybe know I’m confident, that the US elites do not want to die and would not do a move, that would risk the ignition of WW3.
Unfortunately, there is still a scenario left, where these elites could think to have a plan to fight the Russians within Europe without the risk of extending the conflict to the US mainland.
Even though this is fiction, if they believe in it, it would be very dangerous for the world.
Yet, I do not believe in this scenario but who knows how things can develop…
Well, as you said. Let’s hope these thoughts are wrong.
Reply tu ALEKS,
5/26/2023
Sir, yes I believe your argument and analysis is the correct one.
As an author of small suspense novels, I’m composing ‘a short story’ in which NATO and RUSSIA face each other directly, at first ‘traditionally’ with skirmishes, then abruptly !!
Then only three NATO countries send nuclear warheads above RUSSIA.
The Russia’s response is to nuclear destroy deposits (silos) in Holland, Norway, Belgium and Germany. Trying not to destroy civilian populations or demographic concentrations…
At the end of my short novel, the USA, England and France are not participating in this nuclear battle.
Then, a certain balance and agreements between nations manage to establish a round table of nations for peace.
But then 1/3 of central Europe is so-far wipe-off.
Sorry, this one is not only mine : A horror fiction short story !
During the cold war, the US plan always was to stop any Soviet conventional attack in Europe by turning the European theater into a nuclear battle field so as to compensate for an alleged conventional superiority of the Soviets. I believe that thinking is still valid today. As a European, I cannot understand why my compatriots consider this as a desirable outcome, but in view of Europe’s strategic orientation, that does indeed seem to be the case.
“I will put it simply — we are living in the most dangerous time in World history since the start of World War II. The United States is showing no sign of backing down from its effort to keep the war going in Ukraine in the futile hope of weakening Russia. And Russia is intensifying its operations to decimate Ukraine’s military capabilities. This appears to be a toxic recipe for a horrendous collision.”
I cannot see how, humanly speaking, such a collision can now be avoided.
I fully agree with that. Enjoy this Summer doing what ever you like to do. Biking, walking, traveling, etc. do it soon. Winter is approaching both figuratively and in terms of seasons. A huge smash up is coming because the West has gone mad. You would have to be a fool not to see that this is going to result in disaster.
The Rubicon has been crossed. For both sides, there is no turning back. Why? First, the Anglo-Saxon oligarchs will never give up global hegemony. Not voluntarily. For Russia, it is existential. Second, Russia can no longer trust any treaty, any politician. There is simply no partner left with whom peace can be agreed and maintained.
Thomas Röper, a German blogger living in Petersburg, had an interview with Maria Zakharova. A remarkable woman. It is a factual and also a very emotional interview. Unfortunately only in Russian, with German subtitles.
https://nuoflix.de/interview-mit-maria-sacharowa
The blog of Thomas Röper is in German and in Russian.
https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/
https://rupor-news.ru/
The Russians read in the metro/tube/underground …
Thanks for sharing.
When people are divorced from reality and think they are winning when in fact they are losing, and think that Russia is weakened and Putin about to be deposed when the exact opposite is true, who can say what they are capable of doing?
However I doubt very much the NATO exercises will amount to much. A S how of unity and force as it is meant to be, it is exactly that – only a show.
Turkstream on the other hand is a different matter. I doubt either Turkey or Hungary would take destruction of their energy infrastructure lying down as Germany did. That would blow up in NATOs face.
To be honest, I’m surprised that US didn’t tried to sabotage the pipeline on Bulgarian territory using the governement “crisis” currently happening there.
In the meantime, advice has already arrived from “friendly” Canada on how we Hungarians should behave! Apparently (as usual) he doesn’t know our history or us, he doesn’t even remember that we were the ones who attacked the Soviet tanks with our bare hands in 1956 ! Currently, the most hated foreign diplomat is Mr. Pressman, the US ambassador in the country, it is enough for the reader to read the comments about him in the media!
” Is Hungary ready for America to set an example?
May 25, 2023 9:01 p.m
ABISHUR PRAKASH
Guest author
“The war in Ukraine threatens to scorch all “sides” of Hungary. Hungary must build a kind of defense system against emerging new geopolitical storms.” Written by Canadian geopolitical expert Abishur Prakash.
Abishur Prakash is a Canadian businessman, geopolitical expert and writer, head of The Geopolitical Business consulting firm in Toronto. Prakash was born to Indian parents in New Zealand and later lived in Australia and Canada. He wrote a series of books about the development of world geopolitics in recent years and the expected future. Prakash was a guest of the MCC Fest in 2021, you can read our interview with him at that time here. Now we publish your article sent as a guest author.
As the effects of the war in Ukraine intensify, a dangerous situation is emerging for Hungary. So far, the burning questions for Budapest have been about the “immediate” effects of the conflict – for example, energy security or the safety of Hungarians. However, now we are also talking about the domino effect of the conflict on the world, and what kind of risk this poses for the future of Hungary.
Take China.
In the competition with Beijing, the West struck with the “ban hammer” – i.e. Chinese 5G, Chinese investments, and so on were banned. Next could be Chinese sustainability. What does this have to do with Hungary? So much so that the world’s largest electric battery manufacturer (CATL) announced that it plans to build a $7.6 billion plant in Eastern Hungary. With this, Hungary has won for the time being, as this is the largest investment in the country so far. However, it may soon become a problem.
Maybe tomorrow the US and its allies will hit Chinese batteries with the “ban hammer”.
Sales of electric cars with Chinese batteries may be banned. This means that Mercedes or Volkswagen would not be able to sell electric vehicles with CATL batteries in the US or Japan. Such a move would call into question the usefulness of CATL’s plant in Hungary. What will China/CATL do if Chinese batteries are “banned”? It reviews everything – including the Hungarian plant.
Or let’s look at the American sanctions against Hungary. After the “first shot”, Hungary left the International Investment Bank (IIB). But this may be just the beginning for the US.
The United States can try to set an example with Hungary,
thus sending a message to everyone that there are consequences for “allying” with Russia.
Earlier this year, the United States proposed that Chinese airlines operating through Russian airspace be banned from flying to the United States. This means that a Chinese airline that flies from Seoul (South Korea) to Paris (France) through Russian airspace cannot fly to America. As for Hungary, the USA could go even further: for example, airlines operating flights to Hungary cannot fly to the United States. And suddenly, from KLM to Emirates, the flow of people (and tourists) entering Hungary stops. In Hungary, tourism suddenly collides with geopolitics.
The war in Ukraine threatens to scorch all “sides” of Hungary. The next “shots” fired for geopolitical reasons will affect everyone in Hungary, from the manufacturing industry to tourism, both above and below, on the left and on the right.
Now the Hungarian government is under “pressure” to
it must build a kind of defense system against the emerging new geopolitical storms.
It is not about “avoiding” storms, but rather about creating a “buffer zone” that can minimize the impact of storms on Hungary. And about Budapest taking precautions as expected.
Of course, this is not an easy task.
The most critical task before Hungary is to decide which side it is on. In the current global environment, if a country is neutral, it cannot act freely. Even India, the model country of the non-aligned, will be hit by the diamond sanctions against Russia.
In order for Hungary to decide which side to take, it has to consider all factors, from energy to demographic data to the expansion of the business sphere. You have to decide whose area serves Hungary’s most important priorities.
And if Hungary decides to create its own corner, how can it do this.
Time is running out. The behavior of countries is becoming more and more unpredictable. And no matter what happens, the old conditions will never return.
The drumbeat of war is getting louder. They are knocking harder and harder on Hungary’s door. If Budapest does not come to a decision soon, the increasingly widening crisis may lead Hungary to such a path ! “
Time to start systematically shooting down any US RQ-4 remotely piloted surveillance aircraft showing on the Black Sea.
My thoughts exactly.
I think Russia would really like to keep the war contained to Ukraine.
But, America is making that aim more and more difficult.
As the actual Ukraine military and government collapses, American
involvement to keep the war going is more and more open. When Russia moves to take Odesa, will the US just let it fall?
What crazed people/governments will do next is totally unpredictable. Maybe the reason Russia has 300 to 500 thousand troops just training hard, and building supplies and defenses is to be ready for whatever the worst case scenario the Russian MOD considers possible.
@Bill
I am a lay person when it comes to military strategy; but, I don’t see a way forward from here from the Ukraine and the west.
If the Ukraine is seriously contemplating a counter offensive then they will have to concentrate troops to attack somewhere along the line of contact. Russian ISR will detect the troop movement and attack it with missiles, aircraft, and artillery. If the Ukraine decides to attack along a large section of the line of contact then they won’t have enough troops and fire power for a serious counter offensive.
Is NATO planning on sucker punching Russia during the June war games to try to clear out a path for a counter offensive? While that could result in a gain in territory it will come with a very steep price for NATO. There is noway that NATO will be able to sustain it leaving an all out nuclear attack as their final option to prevent defeat. Hopefully there are saner minds in the western military who won’t go along with what would be a suicide plan with no hope of success.
After destroying TurkStream Turkey and Hungary would likely have withdrawn from NATO. That’s another way to prevent WW3.
No they won’t. Being a part of it, they still can influence it’s decisions to an extent. Hungary is surrounded, and would be an easy target for sanctions, or even worse things.
“IS THE UNITED STATES POKING THE BEAR OR IS UKRAINE GOING ROGUE OR IS IT BOTH?”
Or is it something else including nothing altogether?
Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it superman?
As for the Defender exercise, I’ve wondered the same thing in general.
As for the rest, it’s the same methods Israel uses constantly with the Palestinians & sorties into Syria, provoking neighbors and running away, knowing they will face no consequences. Russia, Turkey, Hungary aren’t going to do anything about the provocation’s & irritation of one shots or terrorist acts from Ukr/NATO/US and frankly, they could go on for years doing these things, look at Israel, years.
So, the summer will tell us all a lot. Other than a “plan” of NATO air expansion of the war, otherwise all these current shenanigans will become the status quo & the attrition war will march on .
Par cette attaque dans les eaux territoriales turques, à l’encontre d’un gazoduc exploité par la Turquie en territoire turc, la réplique de la Turquie devrait être TERRIBLE … par exemple par une menace clairement exprimée de QUITTER l’OTAN voire même une RUPTURE : elle serait en DROIT de le faire !!! Que fait la Turquie … même si, en pleine élection présidentielle … qu’il faut ESPERER que Erdogan remportera … ? Aucune protestation officielle … Va-t-elle se conduire comme l’Allemagne, DIRECTEMENT attaquée par les Etats-Unis en le sabotage de Nord Stream … ?
Il suffirait aux Turcs d’annuler l’accord sur l’export des céréales de 404. La Turquie ne va pas se retirer de l’OTAN malgrès les nombreuses raisons de le faire : ça reste un carrefour entre l’Asie l’Europe le moyen-orient et l’Afrique qui a de grands intérets à garder des billes partout… et à rester en bon termes avec tout le monde. Les totomans ont tenté l’isolationisme et ça leur a pas réussi.
“Turks just have to cancel 404 grain deal. Turkey won’t get out of NATO despite the numerous reasons to do so. It stays a crossroad between Asia, Europe, middle-east and Africa with interests to keep some fingers in every pies and being in good dispositions with everyone. Ottomans tried isolationism and it didn’t end so well .”
Turkey does not need to find “un gazoduc exploité par la Turquie en territoire turc.” It can quit NATO `any time if it wants and dares to do so. For that it would have to declare itself unequivocally on the side of Russia and clean up its act in Syria, after apologizing to Assad…
Larry: At the very first days of SMO, Putin underlined that Russia will hit “decision centers” in case of danger for the Motherland RUSSIA.
So Russia must know where those “decision centers” are. But as far as we know nothing is hit outside the area of Ukraine. Do you know? Someone can maybe help? NATO is NOT making “decisions” nor some stupid EU or US politicians; they are fullfiling orders. Is it a Rothchild bunker in City London or located next to Knesset in Tel Aviv? A club 300-Rome secret Lodge? Free Mason temples? A secret commander room under Bank for International Settlement in Basel? Where is it? Who are they? What have Russia of secrets cards in the armhole that is impossible for us to figure out?
What Putin said from day one is the right path “hit the decisions centers” and end of story. Many lives saved only war- and troublemakers go to hell.
But when and and were? I can’t wait!!
Thank you Larry for so much information every single day!
It might very well be that the US might be pondering a war in Europe. I do not know about the former Eastern European states like Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Romania, but I do know that here in Germany there would be absolutely no support for it, and that au contraire a war scenario might help the peace movement to rise to its old power again.
The majority of the german people will do what “BÌLD” and TV like ARD, ZDF, RTL etc. tells them what to do. Germany is on the best way to become a failed state.
“… Ukraine needed targeting data that only NATO intelligence sources could provide. This means that the United States played a direct role in this attack.”
That is not proof it is only your analysis. Yes Hungary is probably the actual target of the operation, and that would make the UK the primary target as they need a unified EU to keep City of London and the ECB in financial control of the continent. Destroying the German middle class removes another barrier to political operation to what the central bankers and others want to create over there. Read Von Der Layden’s comments on the ECB 25th anniversary celebration. Defaulting on all that debt and ‘reset’ of the economic structure is the goal. The neocons and just unwitting aids in getting there.
As for Turkstream, it is not the first try, Turkiye stopped a terrorist attempt a few months earlier on the land part of the pipeline (with IED’s).
FYI, Turkstream is also the route for natural gas (methane) from – fex – Azerbaidjan.
The attack on Turkey and Hungary is meant to create a rift within NATO to neutralize Turkey And Hungary considered by Ukraine as the two main NATO members who would object to NATO direct attack on Russia.
Good for you who live in “Fly-Over Country”. When it happens, you can grow your own food, and more easily return to a simpler way of life.
For those of you who live in high population density metropolises, the Judgement is coming upon you, as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.
When Abraham was bargaining with God over the fate of those centers of immorality, God found not one righteous man in those towns.
As our Muslim Brothers say, “Insh’Allah” – As God Wills it.
For me, I’ll keep my Rosary handy, and keep praying. Remember this litany from the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, “ Through the prayers of the Mother of God, O Savior save us”
God Bless and Keep you All.
Yes. We must see an even higher view…there have always been punishments, corrections if you will, from our Heavenly Father..like all good fathers He helps us see the right path. If only we will see it. Have we thought out what it means in this day to love our neighbours as ourselves?
Events of this magnitude have their origins at the top of the power structure that constitutes the confederacy of client regimes, not individual nation states, of the west. The policy and action figures we are permitted to see are in no way those who make policy or order actions to be taken, as with everything about the western hegemony, it is under the power of a cabal of wicked elites, ones who control the money. The Money. Specifically The Monetary System, which is this hegemons life blood. And making war is obviously a financial instrument just as their central and fiat controlling banks are instruments. And actors such as Victoria Nuland is employed by this hegemon to do their bidding, as it appears now so too pretty much the entire clown show going back decades and as it seems that is the case going back longer than a lot of us good folks ever imagined. In no uncertain terms from the inception of the creation of a central bank and affiliated filthy lucre laundering institutions annd other miney extortion instruments us good folks have been wealth creating slaves within this ordered structure of rapine and oillage systematicaly set up under the guise of legitimate appearing governmental and NGO institutions.
There is only one central source of power inside this wealth strip mining system. This power are the Rotchilian and allied bloodline families, in otherwords organized crime families. Having cored out our Republic and using its shell, its outer visage of a constitutional republic has enabled these allied crime families to essentialy rule the world, possess control over all forms of commerce and wealth creation, an iron fist control of natural weakth and resources, and now they are making their move to do the same thing with Russia, China, for starters, India and Brazil, maybe a few other key sovereign states, to essentially take over the remaining 80% of the world which constitutes the nation states where this criminal gang has not obtained control over as it has with America and Europe.
No one it appears as events prove is safe from the rapine and pillage and subsequent economic and financial servitude and slavery to this consortium of elite criminal families. And you got to wonder, these criminal families, some if them along with a nasty collection of hidden entities go back centuries, some past biblical history, they all are of a type, even without verified in the hand truth one thing is sure, they are all in the criminal business to control this planets wealth, by any means neccessary, one if which is war, small war big war long war shirt war local war world war, insurgency wars, civil wars, it does not matter long as it is war, and war is everywhere, all these wars have one central actor involved in their making and that actor is my country not-my country, a country I no longer recognize, a country which has tenticles in every conflict on this planet, a country that thru one method or another creates and supplies all and every war going in right now to this second on this world.
And something has to be done to stop these evil beings behind it all or as humanbeings we will never know peace or prosperity or being secure in our property and our lives. The truth is when you get down to the nitty gritty, it is no accident there is no other source of righting this wrong and that is by design, terrible awful evil invarnate design, no other source of right but us good folks, for us good folks are the only ones who have not been waylaid and converged by this evil cabal. The only ones. There is no state or government or authority remaining, if there ever was one, to stop them. May be it has been this way a long long time. I am beginning to believe so. All thise authoritative institutions have been false, mostly ruses disguised wealth strip mining institutions to farm us good folks for our wealth, what we are worth by the hour and iver our lifetimes, I think they literally trade us, the wealth of ourselves, from birth till we die, we are cattle, a commodity, and as such even though we are pretty much ignorant if this state we exist in we are still each if us Sovereign beings, and as such we always have a choice, even if we do not know it, that makes us unique commodities, ones who can say Fuck This Shit and fight against those who enslave us. It has hapoened before, and for once a slave revokt was a success. You know what I speak if don’t you fellow good folk?
And for all it can be said to always follow the money and you find the truth, there is one exception to this rule, and that is guns, guns in the hands of slaves, something which has never occurred previously, an entire nation if slaves and within its population exist somewhere near about a hundred million armed to the effin’ teeth good folks, and we are not armed because if some ink in parchment, we are armed because it is a dangerous world always has been, and it is a great cinundrum for these crime families, how do they disarm a hundred million good folks? Well the answer is what it has always been to anything in the way if these criminal gangs running things, War. War is the answer and war it will be come hell or high water it is how they intend to effectively disarm us, thru the decimposition of our unique culture and the civilization that is made from you and me, us good folks. Because, it surely appears these criminal families have deemed most of this worlds populatuon of human cattle expendable, that they have changed the rules, instrad of farming us for our wealth, it would be better for them to hold rule over this world without a human race except for enough servants left from global genocide to suit their needs. I guess it is a lot easier to rule a planet with a few hundred million slaves than one teaming with potential rebels. It seems there is this big problem, the issue of slaves who are starting to revolt, doing so makes these slaves exceptionaly difficult to kill off, and ones armed to the effin teeth are a particularly difficult group of slaves, ones who no longer fear what once mastered them. And I think too things are getting to the point where us slaves, be us American or Russian or Syrian or any nationality, just thru the simple act if saying “I Won’t!”, no longer will I be this slave, is almost if not on the cusp of totally changing the equation of power in the whole human race, and our ince slave masters are in a real bind. And so as with all dangerous wicked criminals, they do desperate things when they find themselves in desperate straights. It is the collective resistance of hundreds of millions, it very well could be billions, of good folks who say enough! Slaves are not supposed to resist. It really messes up the slave masters. And they only, at the end of the day, have the power to hurt. That is all the power they ever had. The cold arbitrary power to hurt, to employ force and threat and use of violence. That is it. Interesting thing is that is a two way street. But even more so, simply saying “I Won’t!” is even more powerful, because it is derived from the single greatest legitimacy which exists. All good folks have this power, and power it is, do not kid yourself, and if armed with your Rifle that is a force, a power multiplier like no other. A slave with a Rifle? Gee, where did I hear about that, slaves with Rifles once?
I believe we are as a world at this very point.
Never say die never bend a knee never give in never quit.
I say lets win!
I think we may see more and more armed drones in use.
What is to stop a drone with an explosive device flying into a pool party at a Rothschild estate on the French coast?
A private golf clubhouse in Spain? This stuff could be funded by friends of Russia. Heck, it could be like Robin Hood
who I recall was pretty popular. History repeats.
If I were a billionaire, I would talk to the iranians about buying some “RC Airplane Models” for my personal collection LOL
You could just quote Sadly Butler and say “All wars are banker wars.”
Sometimes the simple is the best route to the truth, and no one would know better the Smedly.
The only thing US state apparatus is doing is maintaining a collective hallucination about power.
Whatever they do, they don’t stop falling internally and externally : dollars worth less than TP , no more technological ascendancy , lower moral values of it’s politics and an overpriced MIC that wins more dollars than wars and the 404 thing is the cherry on top : sending billions to a proxy for loosing a war on the ground and gaining it in the MSM press … an epitome of uselessness.
What are the so called elite fearing ? A Soviet collapse scenario on default day… with Chinese choosing the new Eltsin. HF 🙂
If the Ukraine landed a man on the moon and claimed to have done it alone,would you believe it?
It seems like comment section has been taken over by pentagon, and other polygons of less sinister nature.
I see a lot of circles which never seem to take a side.
Really Bro?
List those of us who you believe to be agents of the DS/MSM cabal
If u have the intestinal fortitude
I am talking about avatars that appeared today. Yours is a circle, but most of them are polygonal (triangle, square, pentagon, etc.).
OK MadCow. The avatar picked 4me is kinda cute. Really captures my nerdy dorkiness. GO LARRY!
Some don’t choose to be a pentagon … I do prefer Hexagon even if it’s not truly glorious either 🙂 (IDK what symbol I’ll got …as if I cared.)
I marvel at how out in the open it all is. First come the events, events that actually happen. And then some really good and interesting comments.
You run a good blog, Larry Johnson.
They say a man’s opinion is like the nose on his face everybody’s got one.
And in the midst of our speaking we forget that God’s face is utterly against the wicked and the influencers and perpetrators of wicked and dark things.
Many do not believe that God orchestrates the nation’s of men, “a king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water He turns it however He wills”, this is a defining time in the world when the wicked will congregate together against those who refuse to participate in their wicked imaginations.
And isn’t this really what all this is about Russia’s refusal to embrace the wicked ideology of current ruling regime in the West.
The inability to see this as a spiritual war stems from unbelief.
TPTB and government leaders in the Western Alliance are all of one evil intent. And they will not in no way cease they will only continue to escalate their aggression.
They are blind, and as a blind army they slowly march towards a final confrontation between good and wicked.
“Many do not believe that God orchestrates the nation’s of men…,”
but yet, they all sit and wait for the mud to dry on the battle field.
Wonder if far flung US military bases are going to hearing from “local insurgents*? There are lots of bases and potential black eyes for USA.
Some in Syria already had a wake up call.
It’s clear now what the m.o. is. The main propaganda outlet of Deep State tipped us off to this new m.o. (New York Times headline “Intelligence suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group [in Nord Stream 2 attack]” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/politics/nord-stream-pipeline-sabotage-ukraine.html).
The U.S. and Western intelligence operatives will plan, facilitate, and launch major attacks against Russian assets— from Russian war ships in the Black Sea to Crimean bridges to Kremlin drone attacks to bombings and armed guerrilla attacks on Russian territory— and do it under the cover of “Ukrainian groups”.
And since the West thinks they’ve found a clever way to expand the covert war without any risk of retaliation from Russia they’ll keep doing it. I’m sure former SOF guys involved in these CIA paramilitary operations are probably sitting around restaurants in Northern Virginia bragging and laughing about their exploits and how inept the Russians are.
You are right Larry. Hang on to your britches….
The images of the claimed damage to the ship were from the USSCole. Ukrainians are making up stories to distract from their loss of Bakhmut – same for the cross border incursion into the Belgorod region – total failure.
Hi Larry, RT’s documentary entitled “America’s fingerprints in Ukraine” refer to two CIA ops “Aerodynamic” and “Protocol”. Apparently, these date back to the post WWII/Soviet days where Banderite Nazi organizations were nourished and protected as an intended weapon against the Soviet Union. It appears that these long ops were never shut down. Curious as to whether you have any knowledge of these projects?
Watch here:
https://rtd.rt.com/films/americas-fingerprints/
Thank you.
American CIA Nazi ideologues as a ” 5th colomn” from the very beginnings of the CIA in the late 1940’s to the present. Generations of Western Ukrainians groomed in schools to Nazi ideology. A very sad commentary. The result of it all, Russian SMO and eventually the total de-NAZIFICATION of these fanatical ideologues; quite a task; slow but sure.
Thank You dreamer H for the RT link to the 1 hour documentary.
The comments column as enlightening as Larry’s!
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/65497
Looks like Albanians can not stop terrorizing Serbs in NATO ocuppied territories. There will be a war there, sooner or later. EU will be delighted with it, and also enriched with democracy loving refugees.
We should be aware that some privileged rich people play war games for their notion of power or ideology. Their ideology can be as simple as “we’re better than them.” Moving chess pieces isn’t felt as the death of Russians and Ukrainians i.e., people made up flesh, bones and family. It’s abstract to players, a privileged position that empire provides and applauds. The corporatisation and gentrification of politics and war only reconsiders its infallibility when threatened. Pain arrests the bully. Greed can be fought with fear. Fear makes aggressors realise how human they are. How do we create that realisation instead of us being guilty, in a different way, as useless commentators? That, at least, is how I feel about myself – useless in the midst of death.
It is only half of the US that’s poking the bear.
Larry… have you watched the recent interview with Ex MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove?
The upshot: Ukraine for ever, Trump never.
The video explains the reason behind the constant escalations by MI6 and their 007 fuckery.
https://youtu.be/QrYkTRnTlQU
The Old Imperialists are scared stiff Trump will win. Now, we know why they went full spectrum dominance on the US MSM by the latest mass firings of “rogue” employees. They dominate the narrative.
They are afraid President Trump will end the Ukraine conflict and have the US become independent and end any manipulation by the Imperialists. They are equally scared of Trump joining the Global South’s trade framework, which can only reduce deficits and strengthen the Dollar while the British Pounds is headed to Zero. Also, trade will convert the US to a manufacturing economy instead of a financialized economy, returning prosperity and vitality to the US middle class. With manufacturing on the rise, US universities will have to pump out engineers and scientists instead of Woke Feminism.
Working for the WEF, Janet Yellen keeps threatening default unless she has unlimited spending to destroy the Dollar. The Fed responded by signaling through Jamie Diamond’s recent interview with Bloomberg, interest rates might go up to 7%. As a side skirmish to this, we find the Epstein shmeer on Diamond and the new crescendo for Diamond to retire.
There is even Republican, first time ever, talk of reducing the deficit spending by significantly reducing military spending. Wow!
One might deduce, from all of the above, why the Imperialist consider 2024 elections as their Alamo. It is their last chance to save their War and Usury scheme of global exploitation from total collapse.
The question is which of the competing powers has a bigger file on our compromised politicians? Our side might end up having to go along with Trump’s momentum, after they sit him down, explain the rules of engagement and make him a nice offer he won’t refuse.
The War is on and 2024 is D-day and I hope the European underground will join us in defeating this 500 year old parasite infecting Humanity.
1. Is Ukraine going rogue? Ever?
No, they cannot afford to do that but it may occasionally look that way because they take their directions/approval from parties that are sometimes at odds with each other, not on goals but on methods or timing. For example, if the US delays its reaction to various negotiation proposals, the UK or Ursula Van der Crazy jumps in right away, to caution Ukraine to continue fighting to “final victory.”
When Zelensky feared, after the Kremlin attack, that the Russians might kill him he didn’t appeal to the US or the UK to give him assurances that he can crawl out of his bunker. He asked Israel.
So Ukraine never goes “rogue,” it only tries to follow the directions of the party that seems more “durable” in the long term. If the Pentagon told him tomorrow to “fold them” but the nudelmans at State Dept whispered to him, “pay no attention, we have your back,” Ukraine would obey the nudelmans and appear falsely”rogue.”
2. The NATO “exercises” planned for June with the participation of 25 countries are of concern to Russia and the world. By now Russia is already facing a much more sizable threat than the 3rd Reich faced. If Europe does not wake up, it is slated for annihilation no matter how things shake up.
“This appears to be a toxic recipe for a horrendous collision. I hope I am wrong.”
Sane people of understanding also hope you are wrong. Zelensky and the US are standing below a high dive urging nations like Poland and Georgia to take the plunge into the sea of war. All the while they themselves are finding new ways to provoke Russia to “violate” NATO. This is desperation and I fear that Larry is right.
Poland and Georgia prepare to enter the Ukraine war:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/exQQuXib6ew
Russia will help Poland change its national anthem by either deleting their “Eshche Polska Ne Zginela” (transliteration) boast or editing to say”Alas, Polish jokes are true”
The Georgians must be made to see the folly of their abandoning their traditional horticulture trade supplemented by theft and fraud and entering the maw of the Russian meat grinder.
The leaders of the USA/NATO have been programmed by German Nazis since 1945 and the advent of NATO. The USA/NATO has a Nazi mindset and is saturated for generations by propaganda to foment hate toward Russia. The rulers of NATO nations are Nazretard Warmongers and War Profiteers. They are delusional and suicidal. They’re bent on destroying Europe and Germany is committing suicide.
It won’t surprise me if Turkey leaves NATO. It’s not in Turkey’s best interest to stay. The only thing Turkey markets in the USA is firearms. I can envision Turkey joining BRICS/SCO.
I’m fearful of my own country which is programmed to hate Russia and China. Our so called leaders are mental midgets and a disgrace to humanity. The same is true of NATO and G-7. They seem bent on killing us all in a Nuclear Holocaust.
Joe Biden has a real fetish for pipelines – the Baltic, Canada, North Dakota, the Black Sea. He doesn’t care.
Its even stronger than his fetish for 10 year-old girls
“Its even stronger than his fetish for 10 year-old girls”
C’mon man! You know Sniffy Joe likes them younger too.
“The leaders of the USA/NATO have been programmed by German Nazis since 1945 and the advent of NATO.”
Got it. The Kagans and the Nulands come come from a long line of German nazis…
Frau Nudelman may be of Moldovan/Belarussian descent (only God knows …)…
… while Mr Kagan (the name sounds Turkic perhaps …?) is “officially” of Lithuanian descent (again, only the Lord knows …) …
Only the mean girls of the faculty lounge are stupid enough to poke the bear.
Adolf was that detached from reality to take on twelve times zones gas station with an economy (h/t-Songbird McCain) with only five million for the cannon fodder meat grinder.
The Waffen-SS had to go French Foreign Legion to keep some live bodies around.
Ivan knows that it is nooklar (h/t-Shrub) uber alles for the bankrupt in every way former west.
They prepped accordingly while “our” side just wants a high KIA of whites and 7500 degree mushroom cloud sacrifice to their Baphomet.
“The Ukrainians carried out this operation in the Bosporus, around 80 miles from the Turkish mainland”.
The Bosporus is a narrow strait within the territory of Turkey, and does not include any of the Black Sea. Its maximum width is about 3.4 km.
The reports I have seen place the attack well out in the Black Sea, far away from the Bosporus (which the ship had left on entering the Black Sea).
“I will put it simply — we are living in the most dangerous time in World history since the start of World War II”.
A serious understatement. If danger to human life, and the human species as a whole, is meant, this is the most dangerous time ever.
Or perhaps since about 40,000 BC when some scientists believe that the human species was reduced to a few dozen living in a single colony in sourthern Africa.
We have at least a dozen nations armed with thermonuclear weapons (as well as chemical and biological weapons); and at least one nation whose “leaders” are doing everything they can to escalate the existing wars without limit.
Everyone should be sure to say their prayers every night, because they cannot be certain that they will wake in the morning.
Dunno what ‘scientists’ stated this “since about 40,000 BC when some scientists believe that the human species was reduced to a few dozen living in a single colony in sourthern Africa.”
The Australian Aboriginal people have been continuously there for at least 60,000 years.
While I have no doubts the people deciding stuff are stupid and emotionally unstable, but hard to say what options they have. If there is any confrontation with NATO, it will be on paper only. The Brits, French, and Germans do not have enough ammo to last beyond a few weeks in a high intensity conflict. I think the Nordics will provide next to nothing other than support for stuff in the rear of the conflict. Italy and Spain probably in same shape as larger countries in having not enough man power, firepower and equipment. If there is to be a land war, how are NATO countries going to cross all of Europe and all of Western Ukraine to take on the Russians? Maybe Uber takes reservations.
There is air power. Against the best AD in the world? Once the Kinzhals destroy the military air ports where they going to land? Setup maintenance?
Okay, US Marines and Poles invade. Against about an estimated 500,000 Russian military on the border with Ukraine?
Maybe Frau Field Marshall von Nuland might have some secret strategy, but hard to guess what it would be other than handing out cookies to Ukrainian soldiers.
What insanity the insane come up with, it will be nearly a suicide mission. Next step of course is nukes.
I’m wondering how long it will be until a UK submarine or two will no longer be reporting in.
That is probably in the planning. They question is how will they choose the crew to be sacrificed.
Germany is so excited about Air Defender 23!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ThbPCxQug
I alwayz wanted to be fighter jock. ALL my life.
Did not work out.
Why do you think there are requirements from almost unbelievable level of control under where you are required to maintain awareness…while surface to air – air to air – trying to get a cross hair on target…
While there are numerous locked on missiles locked upon ya…long range, medioum and short…telling you they are coming…
How close are you willing to go?
100km?
50km?
That is about it.
It makes absolutely no difference how GOD of a pilot you R.
Plan.
First time here, I just wanted to say thank you for the remarkably high level of ideas in your comment section. I almost hate to say it but, I hope you don’t get popular enough to be flooded with trolls and bots.
Best to you all ..
Does anyone know the name of the manufacturer of these drones? In November Zelensky started a campaign to “crowd fund” the production of 100 sea drones that would be made in Ukraine. The cost per drone was estimated to be $250,000. I am curious whether the type of drone used in the most recent attack was supplied by NATO or if in fact it was made in Ukraine.
Total agreement Larry. There are a lot of pots boiling. German economy failing. Which is the only functional economy in Europe. Fed meeting June 14, betting odds are saying another 25 BPS rate hike. Commercial real estate going into cardiac arrest in US. UkroNazi’s being prodded by Biden to do something, anything they can peddle as an offensive. EuroPutin’s hands getting forced by his own people to actually fight the damn war. OPEC meeting on June 4th to possibly curtail production. China economy laying like a dead hooker by the side of the road and Covid cases coming back. Erdogan probably going to win and will at least say something if they blow up a Turkish pipeline. Oh, and a debt default in US averted by all agreeing that another 2 Trillion added to the 32 Trillion we owe this year was a good day’s work.
In the words of Eric Church, the only defense is “Drink a little drink, smoke a little smoke”.
Fulano de Tal says
26 May 2023 at 15:42
“I am HARD against the globo-homo-schlomo-pedo.”
I agree with that australian participant.
You should not comment.
This is plain bs. It is not that US&NATO is “globo-homo-schlomo-pedo” and you are beings made of pure virtue.
It is f**s stupid to talk about “globo-homo-….” when it only goes about money and resources and power.
There are also homosexuals in Russia, in Saudi Arabia .. the only difference is that you torture and kill them (or they commit suicide because of the attacks).
In other countries, they can become presidents. So what?
What a sh….
I do not know how to tell ya – I do not care…if you are a fucking fag. The issues are abundant. Fuck you fags. I`d rather feed people. Matter of fact I`d feed you purplehaired to the…grinder…
I am an Aryan child.
…on the way to become a monster.
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We’ve been here before:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/able-archer-nuclear-war-reagan.html
Found it interesting talking to a
friend about broken southern border. This person is college educated and believes the Mexico, Honduras, El Salvadors of the world are more advanced technically than eastern European countries like Russia. There is
a lot cognitive dissonance going on.
After listening to Brandon at the G7 in Hiroshima the Empire has will continue forward with their plans to save their asses (hegemony). “Russia lost 100k men in Bakhmut” exclaimed Biden. That’s quite a whopper but he didn’t just pull it out of his rear end. I know he says some off-the-wall gibberish but that is not what that was. They could easily pull back now and the ignorant masses of the West would buy any excuse that was given. Only talk of further escalation.
I believe the Power Broker Elites got double crossed by the Chinese. I suspect China was the next place they would setup shop. This is simply a hunch based on observation. I don’t believe this quasi-partnership is an option. I suspect both the Chinese and Russians understand quite well what these people can do to a country.
Its a survival instinct. In this case survival of their elite order. Not having anywhere else to turn they have fully hitched their wagons to the USA. And the USA MUST remain on top at all costs.
“I believe the Power Broker Elites got double crossed by the Chinese. I suspect China was the next place they would setup shop.”
This is an interesting thought, and it might be true that the elites’ plans regarding China have been thwarted hard, especially with the recent reconsolidation of power by Xi. So is it the US for a bit longer then, is another global center being prepared??
“is another global center being prepared??”
There is none. Its do or die. I believe the West elite thought crumbling either China and/or Russia would be much easier. Remember these people are in a bubble surrounded by yes men and a media they own.
Its “do or die” and all bets are on the US to remain in control. Here is a short and precise read. When you base logic into it you come to terms this is coming. When and to what intensity is a different matter.
https://internationalman.com/articles/the-graveyard-of-empires-the-top-investments-as-the-world-order-collapses/
This is entirely the fault of the American people who put these Bolshevik like war mongers in charge in Washington. If Americans think there is no price to pay for their government’s aggression they better think again. I am afraid my fellow American’s arrogance and abject lack of knowledge will lead to worldwide tragedy. This is a mess of our own making. Would we tolerate Russia setting up missiles on our Southern border or arming Mexico with modern weapons and fielding hundreds of thousands of troops? Grow a brain people!
*** “This marks a dangerous escalation in the war and Russia is unlikely to shrug it off as insignificant.” ***
The coming NATO exercises had better be clean-cut affairs with no frills or mistakes, for I have a sneaking suspicion the Russians won’t need much of an excuse to take out the Aegis Ashore facilities in Poland and Romania.
News reports of the drone attacks on the Ivan Khurs don’t make much sense – yet. There is at least one video of the ship sailing back to port without any damage. Others have verified that the Russians didn’t substitute its sister ship in the movies. I wonder about a military deep fake. If convincing videos can be made of humans acting and speaking, how hard would it be to do the same for a simple image of a slow-moving ship?
Why might the Russians try such a stunt? Perhaps because admitting there had been damage to the ship or fatalities among the crew would cause a lot of pressure from public opinion to Do Something Now! And revenge is a dish best served cold.
There needs to be a search for the mothership of the drones. A sifting through all the signals intelligence. All the human intelligence. And just quietly thinking it over. I suspect that NATO will eventually pay dearly for this stunt.
Finally, the Russians might want to hang a few more deck guns on their ships. Rapid-firing 20-30mm cannon would certainly be an improvement.
I’ve thought for some time that Russia is just itching to put a few missiles down on some donkey NATO country or other. You know, to send a wake-up call of devastation, and to grimly underline their feelings of being screwed by the US — ‘don’t eff with us or we’ll give you something to really complain about”. Just hasn’t found the exact right opportunity to make that point. Poland and Blighty stand out as needing a severe course correction. Dunking that US drone off Crimea several months ago has been the closest Russia has come to slapping the US in the face, and rather startled the US military. The sheer effrontery of those Russians, bark, bark, yip, yip. The US is the big bully with no real spine but a lot of rhetoric and catcalling expertise, and like any gang leader has surrounded itself with yapping minions. So give the dogs a good punch first and make them sob. If the US does nothing, the minions know the boss ain’t got their back.
A Russian revenge event will happen in due time. “NATO” and its proud-as-a-strutting-peacock air show coming up in mid-June had better not stray into Russian air space. Kaliningrad Oblast comes immediately to mind, bearing in mind American complete cluelessness on geography (like Steve Bryen whose article is quoted by Johnson here in this post and doesn’t know the difference between the Bosphorus and the Black Sea).
It seems to me also that the US has this weird notion that Russia is scared of it. Sure, like Ali was of Sonny Liston, the only difference being Ali had a big mouth and the Ruskies don’t.
“A Russian revenge event”
Thank you for your illustration of “The United States of America”‘s continuing mode of framing and reliance on projection.
“Kaliningrad Oblast comes immediately to mind”
Kaliningradsky oblast was always in the collection of hope.
In 1993 with Lithuania and Poland as proxies, in emulation of matters Alaskan on the 18th of October 1867, “The United States of America” made a “confidential” offer to buy Kaliningradsky oblast which caused almost as much merriment and consumption of blinis with honey, as the “Full Spectrum Dominance” and “The End of History” routines had achieved previously.
Will Shryver on Twitter says he suspects US/NATO big escalation soon in Banderastan, with sheep-dipped troops and NATO weapons.
Larry, I agree with your concluding statement. The west has used Ukraine as a launching platform to attack the Russian people of the Donbass as a precursor to attacking Russia itself. This is the reason there will be no backing down by either Russia or the US. Biden is a NECON to the core of his soul, though impaired by his obvious mental decline he was instrumental in the formation of the current government in Ukrainian as well as its anti-Russian policies. I do not see any move toward the reduction of hostilities by the Biden administration. This trial balloon of a frozen conflict to give Biden political advantage in the upcoming US election is laughable. The idea the the Biden administration can declare Russia’s head of state, Vladimir Putin, a war criminal and have an international arrest warrant issued against him while at the same time asking for political favors to advance Joe Biden’s re-election bid is almost good enough to be a skit on Saturday Night live. There is no long term thinking in either the Biden administration or US Congress which seem to operate only on what is politically expedient in the present news cycle. The times are perilous and with our present leadership class it will not improve. The best case outcome is the total loss of Ukraine as a functioning “independent” state and a new cold war. Worst case is Biden is re-elected in 2024 and the US enters the conflict in Ukraine directly while simultaneously attempting to destabilize China. If this occurs we are likely to see a huge reduction in the size of the US Navy due to the Zircon flu, a new pandemic for which there is no vaccine.