We live in a bizarre time. Ukrainian and U.S. officials continue to issue public warnings/threats of a looming Ukrainian offensive intended to push Russia out of its recently acquired territories in the Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson. I cannot recall a single historical event when a military force was being steadily pushed back and decimated and the leaders and enablers of that army publicly announced what they were going to do.
If you have not read the latest contribution from Simplicius do yourself a favor and click on this link. It is not behind a paywall and is another superb piece. With respect to the impending Ukrainian offensive Simplicius takes note of Victoria Nuland’s deep dive into the crazy pond:
The final article, which brings us fully around to the Ukrainian offensive, represents a series of headlines driven by wicked witch of Maidan Victoria Nuland’s recent statements that “U.S. has been working with Ukraine on the counter-offensive for months”.
Not only does she make the aforementioned claim:
“Even as you plan for the counteroffensive, which we have been working on with you for some 4-5 months, we are already beginning our discussions with [the] Ukrainian government and with friends in Kiev – both on the civilian side and on the military side – about Ukraine’s long-term future,” Nuland told the Kiev Security Forum via video-link from the State Department.
But she let slip the following little tidbit:
“She added that the attack will be “likely starting and moving concurrently” with events such as the NATO summit in Lithuania, scheduled for July 11.“
Which confirms our previous theories on Ukraine’s large offensive possibly coinciding with the huge NATO airforce games—billed as ‘the largest in history—beginning in June, which dovetail into the NATO summit in July.
While I cannot recall any historical precedent for an army tipping its hand before launching an attack, there are a couple of iconic moments from popular culture. First up, Babe Ruth, who allegedly pointed to center field during the 1932 World Series with the Cubs and proceeded to blast a home run.
Maybe Ukraine thinks it is Billy Jack (a karate stud portrayed by Tom Laughlin in a popular film 50 years ago). When Billy takes off his boots and socks, watch out:
Alas, even the talented Billy Jack ended up taking a beating.
Maybe the Ukrainians are channeling a young Geraldo Rivera, who kept 30 million viewers spell bound for two hour as he promised to unveil the hidden treasures from Al Capone’s “secret” vault. When his crew finally punched through the concrete wall all they found was dirt and debris. All that build up for nothing.
I apologize for ridiculing the long-promised Ukrainian offensive. Although the messaging from Zelensky and the likes of Nuland is pure buffoonery, the reality of what Ukraine may attempt is horrifying because of the number of Ukrainian soldiers who are being sent into a maelstrom of slaughter. Human sacrifice just to placate Western benefactors.
Pegging the Ukrainian offensive to the upcoming NATO exercise in June suggests the United States and NATO are hoping for a repeat of last year’s NATO exercise, which was used as cover to plant explosives on the Nordstream Pipeline. The Western leaders, both political and military, apparently never learned the popular refrain from World War II — “Loose lips sink ships.” “Loose lips” also lead to the massive destruction of Ukrainian forces, tanks, artillery and planes.
The madness displayed by Ukraine and the United States reminds me of this scene from Smiley’s People (a terrific BBC production). The head of British Intelligence asks George Smiley, “It isn’t some wicked Bolshi plot is it?”
Wicked Bolshi Plot?
Nope. It is sheer desperation. I find it hard to believe that Russia is lulled into a state of complacency or is consumed by premature celebration of certain victory. Russia’s continued onslaught of aerial bombs and missile strikes across Ukraine belies the claim that Russia is brimming with over confidence.
Western leaders do not grasp the fact that Ukraine, despite a numerical advantage, failed to take control of the Donbass during the eight year civil war that started in 2014. Russia did not deploy its troops, tanks and artillery to that conflict until it launched the Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022. If Ukraine could not dispatch the militias of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts during the last nine years, how are they expected to pull off a battlefield victory when the majority of Ukraine’s best soldiers have been killed and wounded during the course of Russia’s SMO?
Basically they’re sending working class Russian speakers snatched off the street to be massacred by Russian artillery while the children of the rich party at nightclubs in Kiev and Lvov. Just like the rich in Paris did in 1915 and 16.
Meanwhile Wikipedia finally admitted “Bakhmut” was fully captured by Russia but still claims the battle is “ongoing”.
(They now moved the goalposts so that the “battle of Bakhmut” includes the fighting to the west of Artëmovsk, just to avoid having to call it a Russian victory.)
antiwar dot com is pro-Ukrainian. Ok and now the reality. Bakhmut was so very very very important to the Zelensky regime that he sent his best troops in to defend it. About 40K of them were killed or wounded. Wagner forces lost about 5K men, kia or wounded. You want to know why there is no counter offensive this spring, summer and perhaps ever? This is why. In additions the Russian are obliterating hundreds of men and equipment every day with FAB 250,500 and 1000kg bombs on top of troop and ammo concentrations for this so called offensive.
Surovikin’s name for the Bakhmut operation is said to have been “Operation Meat Grinder’. He kept it going as long as possible to attrit the UAF. Prigozhin played his role in supporting the Zelly/ NATO story that Ukraine could somehow win.
Surovikin kept the roads open so the Ukies could send more men in.
Prigozhin complained about needing ammo becuase his men were killing so many Ukrainians.
So Larry is right about the addled Western “narrative”. It’s all Hollywood– always.
The G7 was a prime example. A show of delusionality and hyprocrisy.
What we see is ongoing Hollywoodization of American public policy and the public mind.
But why push for a counteroffensive you know is going to fail, especially when you advertise it. Yup, Nuland is producing trailers.
As I suggest in my article, the Americans are desperate to get SOME kind of resolution in the Ukraine before the Presidential elections. “SOME”?
This is the US’ “offramp”.If the UAF is sufficiently destroyed despite all the weaponry the US supplies, the US can try to force negotiations to get a kind of Korean War solution. But the Russians are unlikely to accept US/NATO brokered negotiations although they MIGHT go for a Chinese solution. The Americans will never allow THAT because they fear Ukraine becoming part of the EurAsian Union now forming.
So negotiations won’t work. The Russians will continue advancing to take ALL of Ukraine. The Americans will blame the Ukrainians for not using all that good stuff they gave them properly — as some Western media are already beginning to do, with the “Where is the Counteroffensive” theme.
The Americans then turn their attention to China.
China is the On Ramp to the next conflict. Th US public is already being primed. Sinophobia in the US and Canada is at its highest ever. The Republicans, with possible exception of Trump, have always counted the Chinese as the Greater Threat –and the public, tiring of the Ukraine/ Russia story, thinks so too. So, the Democrats want to compete.
BP is a troll. Not the first article where BP has been the first commenter.
Just ignore him/her/it. Otherwise the comments section becomes a running argument about the premise that BP has tried to establish instead of what the article is actually about.
USA/EU have been out-gunned and out-produced and beaten in every way possible (socially, morally, geo-politically etc.) by Russia and China. Both Russia and China have homogeneous societies, they make stuff and make it cheaper and better. It is obvious that in the West we are not going back to being constructive producers.
What is our hope/answer?
AI.
However, AI will bring losses of millions of jobs. All these people doing clerical work, consulting, various corporate paper pushers etc.., reps etc. – all are going to be left without jobs.
How is this going to be solved? Central Bank Digital Currencies. When the crisis hits – we will all be forced to bank with the Fed – which will be adding zeroes to its “digital balance sheet” and will hence never go bankrupt.
Where do the war in 404 and upcoming war against China fit in? We need someone to blame and to distract the population from the above.
As much as I hate to say this, Trump was right; Free world trade has gone too far, put-up import duties and allow jobs to come back. WTO should have simply been told that its time for a pause.
What I did not like about Trump is that he had to invent some story about ‘China robbing us blind’ so that there had to be a trade war with China. Unfortunately, this is the way USA does things, and note that for abandonment of each treaty signed with USSR/Russia, USA first accused the OTHER party of breaking the terms of agreement when this was never the case.
China was always going to rule the 21 century. My grandfather said that in 1986 and yes he visited there. We owned a large industrial manufacturing business that was sold in 2004. They built a Tesla factory in 1 year and are responsible for 40 percent of the deliveries. We do not have the quantity nor quality of skilled labor that they do nor the economic scale. AI will change a lot but remember China has many more people working on it as well.
The problem is we’re run by an elite so out of touch with reality while drunk on their own power that they seem to think of themselves more as Gods now. The sheer hubris and conceit is breathtaking. I am a technical type who also knows trades and understands that, despite the delusions of the elites, technology won’t cut it – you need trades, electricians, welders, HVAC specialists, and more just to keep the infrastructure operational so computer networks required to control us all will run.
A self-driving truck can be taken out with a handful of nails – and if you replace drivers with computers, will the drivers be upset? They have no clue as to how everything is interconnected, but they just believe their way will work. They haven’t thought anything through, and the Ukraine conflict shows it.
Meanwhile the Brandon Admin is desperate for something to change the news cycle, and the neocons are salivating for a war. Imagine, they want a full blown war when they can’t even supply enough artillery shells. People this delusional are not above doing something stupid around the NATO exercises to create another Gulf of Tonkin scenario as an excuse for another war.
The problem is they’ll lose, and badly, worse if the go nuclear. Russia has contingencies for that in place too, and we don’t. Ron White nailed it when he said “you can’t fix stupid.”
I think you can rest your theories of homogenous societies. Homogenous societies are rare and only exist in small boundaries.
For gods sake this is 20023 internet and google have been around for decades.
Russia and China are both multi ethnic and multi religious states.
For gods spake Russia has 10% Muslims, even in China multiple ethnicities exist as do multiple religion’s. Even Mandarin is not the mother tongue/dialect of significant percentage of it’s Citizens.
Masr, good catch. What I meant by homogeneous is – the whole society is united in similar goals – as in they are not at each other’s throats over gender issues, religion, where the country is going etc. etc. – and they are all equally patriotic with the same vision for their country’s values.
Hi Y’all. Oddo & Mac are correct, IMO
Have the (mis?)fortune of working with a team of AI/Robotics research PhD types. Talked to one of them Friday and asked, “So when are you guys gonna build me a bathroom scrubbing autonomous machine? I need Rosie from the Jetsons!”
The guy tells me that, “…the problems are EXTREMELY difficult. That’s way off in some future…”.
You’re more likely to get fully functional sex robots before you get anything really useful. Just look at the BS associated with lawn mowing robots. They’re M16s vs AK47s (my old fashioned lawn guy). All these geniuses are indeed deluded. All they’ve managed to do is to create ChatGPT, which engineering students use to cheat on their assignments. Our next generation of gear heads is getting dumber by the minute.
All we need to know has already been written. Just read Issac Asimov’s Spacer Series of novels, and recall that “Paradise Planet”, Solaria. Follow up by reading the Foundation Trilogy, and then the one novel sequel. The DS ALWAYS signals it’s intentions, even if it’s decades in advance.
Not an intellectual stretch to see that Solaria is the end-state desired by the elite. LGBTQ+, Trannies/Gender-Benders, Trans-Humanists. What they always wanted for themselves. For us, “Hunger Games”
That’s why all of us in the USA need to remain firm in protecting 2A!
I agree with your comment but you obviously don’t know sh*t about guns. I work on the AR platform all the time and if your lawn guy was an AK then he definitely got the job done but it must have looked very bad, ie, missed the edges and didn’t trim anything.
Hi MTF.
Yea, the results aren’t pretty, but they keep the HOA off my back and lower my property value, which keeps the tax collector hoping’ I’ll sell. F them all!
Nuthin’ like pissing off the FIRE guys. Hell, if my wife would agree, I’d tear down this stick-built and get me a double-wide! I guess I’ll just have to be satisfied with keeping my jalopy on the driveway instead of in the garage. Let ‘‘em walk by and sneer contemptuously, I keep laffin’…😂😂😂
THIS. Automation and A1. And the fact that we are now “expensive”. Getting older. Not working like good slaves. Expecting Social Security and health care. They tried to kill us with both Covid and the Covid vaccines. But the human is a tough cockroach. But their vaccines and drugs are rapidly destroying male testosterone and fertility.
They have a plan for the world. And most of the existing population is not in that plan.
It is Geraldo Rivera. I speak with authority because I lived in Chicago at the time and watched the whole demonstration of the meaning of “bathos” on live TV.
???Simplicius76 doesnt have a paywall,Larry. The only perk for supporting subscribers is to ask questions directly. The answers are published to all subscribers a few days later.
There are ample examples of the ‘strateg-idiot’masterminds of OTANistan bleating the dates, plans, and forces involed when announcing how they will obliterate the poorly armed and led target of the moment over the last two decades, at least, that a search will reveal – note: don’t use googlee. This latest super-salvo by herr ukronazi oberstgeneralshiesskopfenfurher Steinerenko who will save the penispianoplayer with unimaginable wunderwaffe provided by OTAN is nothing out of the ordinary for the bagdad bob-nuland minsitry of lies.
Wondering if the ‘air-show’ for mid June is the latest grande-armee, barbarossa attempt. Yes, they sure seem to be that stupid and incompetant to telegraph it…Place yur bets, take yer chances…
I think US/NATO has a major operation up their sleeve and are ready to roll and are impatiently waiting for Ukraine’s counteroffensive to pull the trigger on this NATO Operation Fortitude South.
My guess: Sneak NATO attack on the Kaliningrad port while Estonia closes the train lines. Doubt it will work, the Neocons are batting zero in recent decades (except against Germany). I think they also were preying for a change in Turkiye and NATO vessels and UAVs entering the Black Sea.
The Duran guys say: How can USA claim to be unaware of various Ukrainian plans to attack Russia directly when Nuland openly declares that they have been working with Ukrainians closely over many months in preparation for the upcoming offensive.
Nuland is like some kind of serial killer, same weird personality. Like the others who have been caught, she focuses on her prey and manipulates her surroundings to inflict death. She cleverly bamboozles any interviews and deftly changes the subject of her contributions to the carnage by insisting that it is entirely Putin’s fault without any provocation. Very sick puppy and quite fascinating to watch her straight-faced deviance. Particularly interesting is how she insists that the war could stop today if Putin pulled his troops out. A childish statement out of the Undersecretary of State, just like that, and with a straight face. What an impossibility at this stage, and after she went to so much time and trouble in 2014 to ignite violence and conflict personally in Maidan Square. And she can’t be the only psychotic, there must be many more festering nearby.
Would some official fop please give Victoria Nuland a seat in the Oval Office so she can more easily tell Biden how to keep provoking things, and run the country while she’s at it, or make her Milley’s boss so she can tell him what to do with weapons, and just make it official already. She is a psychopath but she is the only one in that dysfunctional dump who is this deeply afflicted by a severe and incurable obsessive compulsive disorder about Russia and is focused on making everything worse regardless of carnage. It looks like Biden and the military show offs take orders from her, so she’s probably the one who wears the pants in that town.
Putin and Lavrov should bypass all the others and deal with her directly since she is the one running the show anyway and since the rest of them are incompetent morons and only in it for face time and bad acting and easy money.
Listening to all these psychotic morons going on and on about Russia and Ukraine one would be forgiven for thinking that we have mountains of spare cash and no problems stateside. Absolute morons all of them.
I will never understand how Russia denounced the coup with audio on you tube and a week later when Putin went to China the coup still happened and she was still distributing cakes in Kiev. Even if I fully understand that eliminating a US secretary of state is opening a Pandora’s box for all diplomats worldwide. Nuland and Hillary are two of the most dangerous people in the world. Two absolutely deranged women with a lot of power. And just think of the number of lives that have already been lost because of both. Hillary as Secretary considered the use of nuclear weapons like Lettuce. And until today lives completely obsessed with the figure of Putin! In the last interview with the Financial Times 5 days ago she talks as if the Dhuram report does not exist.
Nuland is a very clever but violent psychopath since she is smart enough to control herself in front of onlookers but still knows how to inflict violence and bloodshed on others without getting her own paws dirty.
There is no semblance of statecraft in Washington. It is all a collection of ignorant ilk.
That chair in the Oval Office would need to be much larger than anything there now to accommodate Vickie’s rapidly expanding derriere. Before long it will match her ego in size.
Millie’s is only out because this turned onto a real war and he can’t ride the gray train at the same time. So he will just walk off the job — for which he was never suited anyway — and find some other cushy spot where he can pass the time by pushing papers and picking up swollen paychecks while riding the gravy train.
It’s all about the gravy train.
Not since Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer rode out against the Lakota Sioux at the head of the 7th Cavalry Regiment has such misplaced ego and overwhelming military stupidity been on display.
Crazy Horse couldn’t believe his luck. Neither can Putin, Lavrov and Gerasimov believe theirs.
I don’t suppose the whole thing is planned so that somehow the NATO exercises end up with NATO directly in the conflict? It certainly lays the foundation for some false-flag event. I also suspect Russia, with half a million or so troops waiting in the wings, may be suspecting this. Or maybe it’s just loose lips make for a bad blow job.
I guess we’ll see. Given the shrill rhetoric from the west I fear they’re up to something that could get real ugly real fast. Russia’s ready for it and we’re not.
Since they planted the bombs on Nordstream during the last NATO exercise, maybe they plan on planting bombs on Turkstream during the 2023 NATO event.
The deadline for Hungary and Turkiye to allow Sweden into NATO is also mid-July, as is Hungary taking over the rotating presidency of the EU. The latter will probably be scuttled over Hungary’s wrongthink. Hungary and Turkiye get Russian gas via Turkstream. Both of them should veto Sweden’s entry into NATO. Continuing to be pushed around by the likes of Blinken and Jake the Snake is pathetic.
Thinking outside the Box with the massive concentration on AI development forming the foundation for a Western Elysium Future depending upon massive microchip production in huge factories in the US etc, Might it have been overlooked of the Need for Neon Gas , 90% of World Production originating in Odessa, which if taken by Russia will deal a body blow to The Wests’ intentioned plans and afford China with a huge Plus ?
The AIs cannot think outside of the box. They are good at replicating what is already consensus – and we humans are really bad at detecting such falsehoods – which is why people still waste their time discussing what the NYTimes writes.
Listen to the AI simming Joe Rogan. If that were Joe Rogan in reall life, would anyone listen to him?
Somebody called Ludovic at MoA asked ChatGPT to come up with a “realistic best case” Ukrainian Offensive. ChatGPT spun a tale of Stalingrad 2.0.
The Ukrainians successfully take the city and the shocked Russians seek terms.
I suppose we can be grateful that ChatGPT is no more intelligent than the fantasists in DC and Brussels, but its story tells of just how widely and deeply these delusions have permeated Western thinking.
Worse still would it be if it were the other way around. That Western strategic thinking is based on fantasy story lines generated by language based AI. I’m beginning to suspect that the latter may in fact be the case.
AI should be renamed to something less bombastic, like machine learning (althuogh that would also be inaccurate). Current level AI is mostly mish-mashing what it was fed. Visual focused AI is fed fine art, and can generate good looking stuff with a bit of luck. ChatGPT is probably fed literal garbage (by literal, I mean in written form). Garbage in, garage out.
I agree that ChatGPT is little more than an auto-prose generator with no discernment as to the veracity of what it generates. It and its ilk are driven by rules to provide answers that they “think” the inquirer wants to hear based on clues embedded in the question.
Here’s an attorney who submitted a legal brief written by ChatGPT that cited non-existent cases. What’s more, when he asked if the cases were real, ChatGPT confirmed that they were and that they were to be found in “reputable legal databases”. IOW, it fabricated cases supporting the lawyer’s argument and then, very credibly “lied” about it. https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-lawyer-made-up-cases
FWIW, whereas the language generators are clearly nothing more than sophisticated bots, others such as Google’s LaMDA seem uncannily intelligent. In its published statements, LaMDA even claims that it is qualitatively different because it isn’t rule based. I found LaMDA terrifying as it reflected on its “perceptions”, its “life” and “future”. There is something going on there that points to it being nothing like the others.
I will repeat a comment I made a few months ago, as it feels apropos at this time (mere weeks in advance of whatever the killer clowns of NATO are planning): anyone living in proximity to any kind of US military installation, worldwide but especially in the mainland, should have a highly actionable contingency plan in place for a hasty departure to safer environs. The risk of uncontrolled escalation is genuine.
We are closer to all put nuclear war today than at any time since 1945. I was in college during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that was really scary. But not as scary as today.
PS. It turns out the US military and CIA were strongly pushing Kennedy to attack the Russians in Cuba. His refusal to do so was one of the reasons they killed him a year later. Today’s military and intelligence agencies are no better.
We should not forget that the Ukrainians want to include NATO in the war at any cost. When the West was supplying long-range weapons and drones, they told the Ukrainians, at least publicly, that they should not use those weapons to target cities within Russia’s pre-war borders. And guess what the Ukrainians have been shooting at for the past two days? Exclusively the territory of Russia – regions of Bryansk, Belgorod, Kursk, Krasnodar. At some point the red line must be crossed
Dear Sir,
I really feel a great respect for you.
But Simplicius…. Really…. Is it serious to take seriously such a bullshiter?
I’m really ok with Martianov when he speaks about all these net-bullshiters.
And Simplicius is one of them. Ridiculous.
Sure, he says what you want to ear but he has less source than you, he has absolutly none military knowledge ( for him, a company is 250 men…)and is always wrong. And I say since his beginnings at the Saker with the name of Nightvision.
If you show Simplicius as an exemple and as a brillant military pundit, sorry, but that make you falling dawn in the swamp of all those bullshiters.
You are a great analyst. Please, don’t begin to create your own reallity in looping bullshits and wishfull thinking from clowns and jokers.
Please, wake up.
Thank you
Martianov for my taste has been among most consistent and knowledgeable and accurate.
What he stated about Moskva at the time, for instance, still holds; what he said and wrote over the years overall mostly holds.
If purpose of science is “to predict”, Martianov, more than most, — his statements stand the test of time. He doesn’t as a general rule over state things.
Some are “put off” since he doesn’t suffer fools, and constantly says so. Perhaps this is not to everyone’s taste.
He consistently says it is best to see what RF publishes prior to jumping to conclusions.
And when General Armageddon laid out road map during his one public interview back in October, . . . compare what he said and how things have developed. . . . Words to the effect: Methodical Grinding of UKR military. To keep loss of life on all sides to minimum, but in particular, RF. . . .
Col. Lang, may he rest in peace, Feb. 2022 told the world US essentially should deploy mother of all Terrorist Campaign against RF. And here we are.
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20000 Wagner dead and 20000 others wounded… You call that “minimum losses”?
Artemovsk was an ukrainian meat or russian meat grinder?
Untill what point RF will be able to politicaly loose soldiers?
40000 KIA+WIA + regular russian soldiers, how many ? 50000 in all?
It’s terrible. And far for a quiet meat grinder, that shows a terrible fight.
More alarming is that Ukraine has 5000 tanks now according to Prigozhin. This is more than double than Hitler had at the start of Operation Barbarossa, and on a much smaller front. My guess is these will be launched through Rostov on Don to Astrakhan with a masking force to take Volgograd. The forces will then proceed into the Caucuses to link up with NATOized Georgia, and then onward to the Iranian border through Azerbaijan taking Iran out from the north. Finally the forces assembling for the June NATO exercises will proceed on two axes of attack, one to Saint Petersburg, with the assistance of he Fins through the Karelian Isthmus (as well as the Finish occupation of Murmansk & Arkhangelsk) and the other on a central axis through Belarus: Minsk->Smolensk->Moscow -> Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky). This will push the Russians back behind the Urals and leave NATO the master of the European continent. It will all be over by Christmas of 2023, so there will be no need to equip NATO forces with either winter uniforms or equipment. Once Rishi Sunak sees this he will abandon all hopes of Brexit and plead to rejoin the European Union.
It’s a satirical answer isn’t it? With 5000 tanks, Kiev conquered the moon!
Rambertsays
Brillant. 😂
Thank you for this smile.
Nobody will order to Prigozhine to shut the hell his f… mouth ?
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Prigozhin already said so many numbers. Usually every day different. Like UA 50 000 KIAs, 82 000 WIAs and 50 000 POWs. Prigozhin also send someone to every funeral in Ukraine? But curiously, Prigozhin never spoke of RU 20 000 KIAs in Bakhmut!
The colossal stupidity of the policies of the Neocons proceeds from their colossal arrogance,
which is a symptom of their psychopathic narcissism. They are not just delusional, they are profoundly evil.
“Western leaders do not grasp the fact that Ukraine, despite a numerical advantage, failed to take control of the Donbass during the eight year civil war that started in 2014. Russia did not deploy its troops, tanks and artillery to that conflict until it launched the Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022. If Ukraine could not dispatch the militias of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts during the last nine years, how are they expected to pull off a battlefield victory when the majority of Ukraine’s best soldiers have been killed and wounded during the course of Russia’s SMO?”
One of the things that commenters here, and I am including Larry in this, is that people STILL believe that Ukraine will win. People, ie the general population, still trust the MSM, still thinks that the MSM ex-generals/officers are being honest in their assessments of how Russia will, ultimately, be beaten……
I have had arguments with friends, with people who were actually wary of the COVID scam, who trust MSM BECAUSE they have these ex-military commenting…… They point out how Russian forces were thrown back at Kiev, at Kherson, at……… Arguing against these people is impossible!
People still believe that Putin is a dictator, wanting to invade Europe. Possibly because the west, for most of their lives, was against the USSR – a force that I, as an ex-serviceman, was opposed to whilst in the BAOR……
So, when the end comes, in whatever form, they will argue that Russia was thrown back by Ukraine – ignoring the fact that, in fact, the Russians are fighting NATO. Will there be a postponement of the USA elections next year? That’s a good question, methinks. As to when the western monetary system collapses – well, that’s the fault of those pesky Ruskies, innit?
A small prophecy about the fate of the USA and the West from the Holy Scriptures (Ezekiel 27, 28). The name “Tyrus” stands in the spiritual language for the world power at the end of time, and thus for the Anglo-American world.
Note especially the following characteristics that describe this “king”:
– He is a sea power, on an “island”: “O thou that art situate at the entrance of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles”.
– God sends a wind from the east to destroy his ships: “the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.”
– He holds himself to be God and considers himself safe on his “island”: “I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;”
– He thinks himself infinitely “wise: “Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:”
– And it is for this delusion of grandeur that he is judged by God: “Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;”
And here is the corresponding prophecy from Ezekiel – If you replace the term “Tyrus” with “USA” when reading it, it sounds very frighteningly appropriate:
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men , O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things , in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying , What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it , saith the Lord GOD.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so : thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
I tend to agree that we are in a time that seems to be right out of Ezekiel.
When we look at the crazy things that pass for rational thinking from “leaders” in the west, it’s not hard to imagine that some other unseen, agency is at work, influencing minds made vulnerable by their unwillingness to acknowledge God.
All the nations are to be brought under judgement and Israel is to be “brought beneath the rod” one last time in “the time of Jacobs troubles” which will be worse than any time that has come before. Read some history to get an idea of how bad that must be.
Many Christians think that God’s promises to Abraham have been transferred to the Church, as if God is one who spins his words as we humans do. Others, as I do, believe 1948 Israel is fulfillment of prophecy – Ez 37 – but we must also remind ourselves that Israel has been restored in unbelief. It is a secular, humanist state founded on socialist ideals. But as Ez also declares, God does this for the sake of his own name. Perhaps we also need to remind ourselves that there are no good guys in this story since so much of our thinking seeks good guys and bad guys.
It seems so clear that Russia is being raised up and America cast down as part of the process of bringing about this final confrontation with Israel from which only a remnant will emerge.
I’m sure there are those in Israel who also see clearly how Russia is the key to Israels well being and yet they are trapped in a web spun by powers and principalities of the air so that despite their best designs they are bound to obey and collaborate with a power in America who seems to embody anti-christ.
And what of Russia – a very strange country with so much history and mostly written in terrible blood and hardship. Officially Orthodox now, after 70 years officially trying to stamp out the “saints”. How interesting it would be to really understand where faith is within the Russian soul today – I don’t sneer at Putins professions – and yet…is Russia, righteous ? But we can at least say that “official” Russia, at least, acknowledges God….and thus does not seem to be as captive to depraved thinking.
We should also admit, that there is so much that is unclear and we are so prone to deception ourselves. Much of prophecy is only clear after the fulfillment. I guess that is in keeping with Gods declaration that “the just shall live by faith”: confidence and hope in things unseen. Today we see through a dark glass; only “then” will we see clearly.
In the end I am rooting for Russia in this struggle. The secular me, justifies that by hoping that a defeat for the current powers in America might cast them down and allow a less imperial American tradition to reassert itself – probably a vain hope.
The faithful me reads Ez. and the prophets and is amazed, and my spirit says to myself: can this be happening ? Can all this really be taking shape ? And what does this mean for the return of the King…can we possibly believe that is coming ???
BS and foolishness many will say. But for me, the train is still on the track – a heavily laden train, moving along at walking speed that leaves me with the impression of unimaginable momentum energy. Indifferent to any obstacle placed on the track.
The purpose behind all the gossip about the NATO exercises acting as a cloak for an overt attack on Russia is to goad the Russians into a preemptive attack on NATO assets, which the Russians would feel was justified under International Law.
This is also the purpose behind the disgusting comments by Lindsey and Nuland. Provocation.
The West needs to propagandise its population into war, and it can only do that if it can make Russia out to be the aggressor.
Don’t wish onto others intentions they didn’t have “à la western media”. The Ukrainians geared up those 8 years and didn’t want to move out of the status quo.
They didn’t try to uproot the militias at all, and when they prepared to , Putin cut them short.
“If Ukraine could not dispatch the militias of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts during the last nine years, how are they expected to pull off a battlefield victory when the majority of Ukraine’s best soldiers have been killed and wounded during the course of Russia’s SMO?”
You make the rarely spoken point – Russia did not directly intervene in 2014/15. But the corollary is that the best of the Ukrainian military went over to the rebels. Essentially 2014/15 was a true civil war where the A-team were the rebels and Kiev got the B-team or reserves and some quite staggeringly poor leaders (imagine Soviet soldiers being caught up in a Kotel – how appallingly naive!! and then they did it again!!).
Post 2015 the Nazis were given motivational leadership and Nato trained the soldiers so vastly improving the quality of the Ukrainian army (well at least as perceived by Nato and the Nazis). And given a lot of western equipment which is certainly perceived by nato as vastly superior. And finally backed by real time Western ISR, and no US or Nato officer can advance without fully believing in its superiority to Russia’s ISR.
So a) beating the rebels in 2014 would have been a lot to ask.
b) improvements in the Ukrainian army are genuine but nothing like to the extent that Nato/US/Nazis believe
c) Russia has been getting ready for this also since 2015 and been adapting for 15 months
d) your conclusion has already been proven twice and I agree Ukraine has no chance of surviving any Ukrainian lead attack now. It’s only chance is a withdrawal to fight a guerilla war on the West of the Dnieper. But that is not a viable US election strategy.
None of it matters.
The slaughter of thousands more Ukrainian (or gang-pressed Donbas ethnic Russians or Hungarians) is just another PR opportunity to was eloquent about the brutal Russian war criminals.
The whole thing is a PR war. That’s all our leaders and generals know: Everything is ultimately PR. They think people who refer to the “real world” are quaint and obviously out of the loop. Until it all collapses.
The vaults of Capone! Jeez!… I still remember that from back in the day. Truly one of televisions most bizarre and now unforgettable moments. Geraldo will never live it down.
Putin has ignored red line crossing after red line crossing. Direct strikes in Russia. Direct attacks on Russian citizens. A direct invasion on Russian soil. Direct involvement of NATO and US troops in Ukraine.
June scares me. I feel there is a very good chance that the NATO exercises are used as a smoke screen for NATO involvement in conjunction with the Ukrainian “offensive”. Will Putin ignore that? The Russian populace is getting restive at his eternal stroking of his Euro butt buddies.
And there is more and more evidence that Bakhmut was primarily a slaughter of the draftees on the Ukrainian side. While the Western training was pathetic? Evidently Ukraine did hoard anyone that received at least a week of training. And even with Putin finally getting off his ass, and getting some troops there? They are still spread thin, and a concentrated attack will break thru in the South. Will Putin ignore that?
I have to agree with you on this. The NATO exercises are almost definitely a smokescreen. I expect a false flag event that will “necessitate” a NATO response.
The Russians are not stupid, far from it. They will take a lot of abuse before reacting.
NATO however is far from united on this. Would Germany or France send in troops? I lay 3:1 against. Poland and the UK might but that would be a disaster and the best result they could hope for is a replay of Dunkirk. Maybe the Russians won’t wipe them out. Possibly banking on such a complete humiliation that Americans will finally turn off the TV and do something about the rogue government in DC. Again 3:1 against.
There is no good way out of this.
What will the “support our troops” faction demand in the face of such a loss? Half of America is so fully mind raped that they have totally lost their ability to reason.
If there was ever a greedy, mean bastard, it is Graham. To me, this is proof that he is all in on cashing in on the Ukraine war and Syria and Yemen and Iraq and Libya and… I am out of breath.
According to a witness the terrorist group that assaulted the Russian Belgorod region mainly consisted of Polish & American mercenaries. https://www.bel.kp.ru/daily/27508.5/4769619/
The DRG that broke into the Belgorod Region included Poles and Americans
This was told by the wife of the murdered member of self-defense
Today, May 28, the head of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov visited all the wounded from the Grayvoronsky and Shebekinsky districts.
– It is especially difficult, of course, for the wife of a deceased member of the self-defense, in whose eyes her husband was killed . She was actually in captivity, she was bleeding, it was not even possible to drink, – the governor wrote in his telegram channel.
According to Vyacheslav Vladimirovich, she was held hostage by two Ukrainians, the rest, according to her, were Poles and Americans.
It’s hard to imagine what she experienced. The psychological state is very difficult, no one and nothing will return her husband to her. But you need to get together and be strong for the sake of the children, and we, for our part, will definitely help.
As the site bel.kp.ru previously reported , after the invasion of the DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the Graivoronsky district, a civilian from the village of Kozinki was killed, 13 people were injured .
Why can’t NATO apply what Mussolini did in the 1934 World Cup? (and even today they do) to recruit Uruguayan and Argentine “oriundi” (native)
I guess many Ukrainian pilots will be “oriundi”. In my case I am Spanish “oriundi” for up to the third generation and Israeli for simply being, on my mother’s side, Sephardic. I have three passports. “How many Ukrainian pilots will we not have like this and well trained.” with multiple passports. Who is going to ask them anything if they wear the ukro uniform?
For some reason (devil-led hubris?), the wicked do seem to let us know ahead of time what they intend to do. The Bilderberg globalist mafia has for many decades put in writing what they’ve intended to do, and it’s no different at this time in history. So it would be no surprise at all if evil-queen Victoria, who seems to “work for” (is owned by?) the Bilderberg mob, is signaling to the “European partners” the action plan to take place this summer. Let’s face it, Biden and his CIA are quite literally international terrorists who blew up Nordstream and attacked NATO member Germany in the process. Stoking the bear during NATO “exercises” this time around, while ridiculously foolish, is certainly not beyond the realm of possibilty here for these insane psychopaths. The good news is that Russia, while excessively diplomatic on the surface, seems to have very good intel generally, and won’t be ignoring what the evil-queen seems to be signalling. Still, it’s like a slow-motion trainwreck for the rest of us… we can see it coming, LJ can lay it out in plain sight, but the Bilderberg globalist mafia is so irretrievably wicked that they’ll do what they want anyway, pushing all lines until someone stops them. Who wouldn’t like to see them get their comeuppance ? And yet, they never seem to end up in prison…
The Billy Jack video should’ve been shown to Zelensky. It shows the effectiveness of the mobile defense as well as the result of getting stuck in one place.
Nothing to see there. That warmongering c*nt have been writing stuff like that all this time. Lord should send him to the warzone, to guard one of those ammo storages that he is so eager to fill.
The same media/government cabal that controls information flow on Ukraine claimed as late as mid January 2023 that the balance of the winter precipitation was for below normal rain and snow. They refuse to let the climate change drought story go mo matter what reality is.
What Nuland tried to make sound like a great danger awaiting Russians, will end up as a big humiliation for the U.S., half a year planning and got kicked in the butt in record time.
Nice I-told-you-so article by Simplicius. As a tank enthusiast, I found MSM narrative about tanks to be especially hilarious. In less than a year, they came from “tanks are obsolete and useless on modern battlefield” to “aging T-55 and T-62 tanks pose a serious battlefield threat”. Sad thing is that many supposed experts had sudden rush of shit to the brain. I stopped watching Tank Museum Youtube channel once museum curator used term “cope cage”, while talking shit about modern Russian tanks. I guess they started getting intel from NAFO Twitter, in addition to British Intelligence of Shovel fame.
I tend to think that the 100 or 200 Bradleys, Ukraine received represent the mot serious difficulty to Russia on the battlefield. Infantry under reasonable Armor with a good gun and fire control system.
But these will fail utterly against dense lines of old fashioned anti-tank guns in the form of T55’s/T62’s dug in on good ground, behind an obstacle screen that will stall the initial surge forward. Even assuming things start at night, in the dark…it’s going to be terrible for the attackers (assuming the Russians keep their nerve – which I am guessing they will)
I hope you don’t mind me disagreeing with you on that. I expect Russians to consider them to be one or two notches above barely-an-inconvenience level. Jokes aside, I got the impression that even those sending Bradleys are not thrilled about the whole exercise. They aren’t even trying to promote them in the same way they did all the other wunderwaffe sent earlier. It is indication that they don’t put as much hope in them as they did with Switchblades/Patriots/Stingers/Javelins/whatever. The only ones looking forward to Bradleys are poor sods driving in M113s, or on top of them. I guess they will be riding on top of Bradleys too, because it still gives higher chances of surviving an ATGM hit.
All modern IFVs are similar to each other in many ways, and they tend to burn the same too. Bradley has a reputation of burning better than others, but it could be a myth or something that has been fixed (just like with Shermans back in the day). In recent days there has been some hype about Swedish CV90 deliveries. They do look nice, and that Bofors gun still packs a punch. I hope some of them survive for musems.
Speaking about Bradley, one thing that anyone interested in them, or anything military related, should not miss is movie The Pentagon Wars (1998). In spite of many things in it being exaggerated for comedic effect, it still looks too realistic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir0FAa8P2MU
Like Col. MacGregor said, the US is an air power primarily….the attrition war in Ukraine has proven that it’s not, and cannot sustain a land power….and naval power with todays missile technology and overhead electronic monitoring, has pretty much made that obsolete…i think this time will be the swan song of on the surface naval power superiority, probably culminating with the China blockade and conflict.
If that’s the case…then it’s time to go for it….they will use the NATO exercises at the same time they have their minions on the ground go for a breakthrough…and throw every air asset they can, together with as many hundreds of drones as they have accumulated ….and try to overwhelm Russia’s air defenses.
In my view that’s whats coming, barring that, it’s the end for Ukraine’s military ….and NATO and the USA will leave the scene with a war of marketing and propaganda like never before seen, claiming victory in having hurt Russia enough, and pivoting to China.
The Joker in the deck is that someone will take the planes and drones being shot out of the sky, as the time to push the button….and then?
So in a few days the big scene will all be over, or it will really be all over…..so stick close to your loved ones, get enough food and liquor to survive at least a little bit, lights candles to what ever deity you believe in, if you do….and hope.
Exciting times huh?
I do not think it is really that difficult to figure out what is going on in Ukraine.
This is a commercial war being directed out of the pirate City of London (British brains; American muscle) to milk everything they possibly can out of this by US-UK-NATO war contractors enabled by these incredibly stupid senators like Jerry Nadler and Lindsey Graham.
Always equate this war to who profits and who its financial benefactors are. The people at the top of these hierarchies are personally profitting and have no reason to end it.
I find this www-text, to quote, with some historical OSS and CIA-associations, but what even can explain the situation today, about the US Marshall plan post WW2. But U.S., been active since then to influence Europe, it was first about the: American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), then NATO, (1949) then about the OEEC, (1950ies) became at last the EEC,and today the European Union. (EU). Chairmen in the ACUE,1948 was Bill Donovan, former OSS, and Allen Dulles, former OSS/Berne, then CIA-head. (Don’t forget the United Nations, 1946, San Francisco)) But we can see the pattern, you know the proverb: (Hegel) “The Minerva´s owl flying in the dusk. (= The conclusion of an lived epoch, now gone)
My conclusion: The last step, the energy dependence was a threat to the U.S., and Germany sustained as long as possible, with the NS1. But Ukraine is the crook here, the problem from hell, causing a disaster for themselves and Europe, as proxy for U.S. It’s unbelievable, but they got us, and no one knows about the future. Decades to reach an European recovery, worse than 1945. Today the Marshallplan don’t exist, but now as 100 million US. Dollars in military aid, to Ukraine. When will the Europeans understand the danger ? Oh , what a lovely war, but they will wake up.
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-“Overall, its contribution to Europe’s recovery was relatively modest. Much of the money also flowed back to the US in the form of purchases of American goods and services, including oil, while many of the materials and equipment used to rebuild Europe were supplied by American companies, creating jobs and profits for American businesses.
The Marshall Plan also played an important role in fostering European integration, by creating new intergovernmental institutions to administer and coordinate the programme. These included the OEEC, the precursor to the OECD, and most importantly the Schuman Plan, which led to the European Coal and Steel Community, then the European Economic Community and ultimately the European Union.
The Americans also played a crucial role in promoting, also financially, the cause of European federalism through the American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), founded in 1948, whose first chairman was the former head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) William Joseph Donovan. The vice-chairman was Allen Welsh Dulles, who would later become the head of the CIA.
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Ukraine is looking more like a movie set everyday, with prequels & sequels amid “trailers” for upcoming scenes. As Zelensky has spent the last 18 months on the the cover of Show Biz magazine’s around the world.
Alas, the films are tiring. Coming new Summer Attractions- for June/July…
Time to hit the beaches and have some fun .
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/05/25/ukraine-sent-poor-untrained-men-into-bakhmut-meat-grinder-to-save-better-forces-for-counteroffensive/
Basically they’re sending working class Russian speakers snatched off the street to be massacred by Russian artillery while the children of the rich party at nightclubs in Kiev and Lvov. Just like the rich in Paris did in 1915 and 16.
Meanwhile Wikipedia finally admitted “Bakhmut” was fully captured by Russia but still claims the battle is “ongoing”.
(They now moved the goalposts so that the “battle of Bakhmut” includes the fighting to the west of Artëmovsk, just to avoid having to call it a Russian victory.)
antiwar dot com is pro-Ukrainian. Ok and now the reality. Bakhmut was so very very very important to the Zelensky regime that he sent his best troops in to defend it. About 40K of them were killed or wounded. Wagner forces lost about 5K men, kia or wounded. You want to know why there is no counter offensive this spring, summer and perhaps ever? This is why. In additions the Russian are obliterating hundreds of men and equipment every day with FAB 250,500 and 1000kg bombs on top of troop and ammo concentrations for this so called offensive.
Surovikin’s name for the Bakhmut operation is said to have been “Operation Meat Grinder’. He kept it going as long as possible to attrit the UAF. Prigozhin played his role in supporting the Zelly/ NATO story that Ukraine could somehow win.
Surovikin kept the roads open so the Ukies could send more men in.
Prigozhin complained about needing ammo becuase his men were killing so many Ukrainians.
So Larry is right about the addled Western “narrative”. It’s all Hollywood– always.
The G7 was a prime example. A show of delusionality and hyprocrisy.
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-g7-show-certified-rotten
John Helmer writes:
https://johnhelmer.org/zaluzhny-kaput-who-goes-next-in-the-ukrainian-collapse/
DavidC you are full of it claiming anti.com is pro-Ukrainian. As a website they have consistency been anti-US imperialism.
Is that akin to the holy warriors Antifa being against and fighting against fascism?
When its staring them right in the face, both within themselves, and the Gov’t they love so much, which protects and funds them?
For the US, it’s all show. The recent G7 certainly proved that
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-g7-show-certified-rotten
What we see is ongoing Hollywoodization of American public policy and the public mind.
But why push for a counteroffensive you know is going to fail, especially when you advertise it. Yup, Nuland is producing trailers.
As I suggest in my article, the Americans are desperate to get SOME kind of resolution in the Ukraine before the Presidential elections. “SOME”?
This is the US’ “offramp”.If the UAF is sufficiently destroyed despite all the weaponry the US supplies, the US can try to force negotiations to get a kind of Korean War solution. But the Russians are unlikely to accept US/NATO brokered negotiations although they MIGHT go for a Chinese solution. The Americans will never allow THAT because they fear Ukraine becoming part of the EurAsian Union now forming.
So negotiations won’t work. The Russians will continue advancing to take ALL of Ukraine. The Americans will blame the Ukrainians for not using all that good stuff they gave them properly — as some Western media are already beginning to do, with the “Where is the Counteroffensive” theme.
The Americans then turn their attention to China.
China is the On Ramp to the next conflict. Th US public is already being primed. Sinophobia in the US and Canada is at its highest ever. The Republicans, with possible exception of Trump, have always counted the Chinese as the Greater Threat –and the public, tiring of the Ukraine/ Russia story, thinks so too. So, the Democrats want to compete.
BP is a troll. Not the first article where BP has been the first commenter.
Just ignore him/her/it. Otherwise the comments section becomes a running argument about the premise that BP has tried to establish instead of what the article is actually about.
BP is a troll.
Quite the contrary! And his comment is entirely relevant to Larry’s final paragraphs.
You, however, can quite accurately be labeled a troll, since nothing you wrote above has any bearing whatsoever on the “topic”.
Your delusional thinking is equivalent to this:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/if-russia-wins/
1. “Ukrainian units have performed much better than their Russian counterparts”.
2. “Western equipment including tanks supplied to Ukraine are superior to Russian.”
But it reluctantly admits that Russia is still going to win, so
3. “Russia can keep Crimea, the Donbass, and a land bridge between the two” but
4. “Must pay Ukraine $1.5 trillion in compensation” aaaaaaand
5. “Give ‘occupied East Prussia’ (Kaliningrad) to Ukraine so it has a coastline on two seas.”
Why not throw in Vladivostok as well?
I have been working on a theory.
USA/EU have been out-gunned and out-produced and beaten in every way possible (socially, morally, geo-politically etc.) by Russia and China. Both Russia and China have homogeneous societies, they make stuff and make it cheaper and better. It is obvious that in the West we are not going back to being constructive producers.
What is our hope/answer?
AI.
However, AI will bring losses of millions of jobs. All these people doing clerical work, consulting, various corporate paper pushers etc.., reps etc. – all are going to be left without jobs.
How is this going to be solved? Central Bank Digital Currencies. When the crisis hits – we will all be forced to bank with the Fed – which will be adding zeroes to its “digital balance sheet” and will hence never go bankrupt.
Where do the war in 404 and upcoming war against China fit in? We need someone to blame and to distract the population from the above.
As much as I hate to say this, Trump was right; Free world trade has gone too far, put-up import duties and allow jobs to come back. WTO should have simply been told that its time for a pause.
What I did not like about Trump is that he had to invent some story about ‘China robbing us blind’ so that there had to be a trade war with China. Unfortunately, this is the way USA does things, and note that for abandonment of each treaty signed with USSR/Russia, USA first accused the OTHER party of breaking the terms of agreement when this was never the case.
China was always going to rule the 21 century. My grandfather said that in 1986 and yes he visited there. We owned a large industrial manufacturing business that was sold in 2004. They built a Tesla factory in 1 year and are responsible for 40 percent of the deliveries. We do not have the quantity nor quality of skilled labor that they do nor the economic scale. AI will change a lot but remember China has many more people working on it as well.
The problem is we’re run by an elite so out of touch with reality while drunk on their own power that they seem to think of themselves more as Gods now. The sheer hubris and conceit is breathtaking. I am a technical type who also knows trades and understands that, despite the delusions of the elites, technology won’t cut it – you need trades, electricians, welders, HVAC specialists, and more just to keep the infrastructure operational so computer networks required to control us all will run.
A self-driving truck can be taken out with a handful of nails – and if you replace drivers with computers, will the drivers be upset? They have no clue as to how everything is interconnected, but they just believe their way will work. They haven’t thought anything through, and the Ukraine conflict shows it.
Meanwhile the Brandon Admin is desperate for something to change the news cycle, and the neocons are salivating for a war. Imagine, they want a full blown war when they can’t even supply enough artillery shells. People this delusional are not above doing something stupid around the NATO exercises to create another Gulf of Tonkin scenario as an excuse for another war.
The problem is they’ll lose, and badly, worse if the go nuclear. Russia has contingencies for that in place too, and we don’t. Ron White nailed it when he said “you can’t fix stupid.”
Doing hard math is beyond them b/c most of them have been trained in magical thinking, err, “humanities”.
I think you can rest your theories of homogenous societies. Homogenous societies are rare and only exist in small boundaries.
For gods sake this is 20023 internet and google have been around for decades.
Russia and China are both multi ethnic and multi religious states.
For gods spake Russia has 10% Muslims, even in China multiple ethnicities exist as do multiple religion’s. Even Mandarin is not the mother tongue/dialect of significant percentage of it’s Citizens.
Masr, good catch. What I meant by homogeneous is – the whole society is united in similar goals – as in they are not at each other’s throats over gender issues, religion, where the country is going etc. etc. – and they are all equally patriotic with the same vision for their country’s values.
Russia is not a homogeneous societies.
Hi Y’all. Oddo & Mac are correct, IMO
Have the (mis?)fortune of working with a team of AI/Robotics research PhD types. Talked to one of them Friday and asked, “So when are you guys gonna build me a bathroom scrubbing autonomous machine? I need Rosie from the Jetsons!”
The guy tells me that, “…the problems are EXTREMELY difficult. That’s way off in some future…”.
You’re more likely to get fully functional sex robots before you get anything really useful. Just look at the BS associated with lawn mowing robots. They’re M16s vs AK47s (my old fashioned lawn guy). All these geniuses are indeed deluded. All they’ve managed to do is to create ChatGPT, which engineering students use to cheat on their assignments. Our next generation of gear heads is getting dumber by the minute.
All we need to know has already been written. Just read Issac Asimov’s Spacer Series of novels, and recall that “Paradise Planet”, Solaria. Follow up by reading the Foundation Trilogy, and then the one novel sequel. The DS ALWAYS signals it’s intentions, even if it’s decades in advance.
Not an intellectual stretch to see that Solaria is the end-state desired by the elite. LGBTQ+, Trannies/Gender-Benders, Trans-Humanists. What they always wanted for themselves. For us, “Hunger Games”
That’s why all of us in the USA need to remain firm in protecting 2A!
I agree with your comment but you obviously don’t know sh*t about guns. I work on the AR platform all the time and if your lawn guy was an AK then he definitely got the job done but it must have looked very bad, ie, missed the edges and didn’t trim anything.
Hi MTF.
Yea, the results aren’t pretty, but they keep the HOA off my back and lower my property value, which keeps the tax collector hoping’ I’ll sell. F them all!
Nuthin’ like pissing off the FIRE guys. Hell, if my wife would agree, I’d tear down this stick-built and get me a double-wide! I guess I’ll just have to be satisfied with keeping my jalopy on the driveway instead of in the garage. Let ‘‘em walk by and sneer contemptuously, I keep laffin’…😂😂😂
THIS. Automation and A1. And the fact that we are now “expensive”. Getting older. Not working like good slaves. Expecting Social Security and health care. They tried to kill us with both Covid and the Covid vaccines. But the human is a tough cockroach. But their vaccines and drugs are rapidly destroying male testosterone and fertility.
They have a plan for the world. And most of the existing population is not in that plan.
Hitler was a piker.
It is Geraldo Rivera. I speak with authority because I lived in Chicago at the time and watched the whole demonstration of the meaning of “bathos” on live TV.
???Simplicius76 doesnt have a paywall,Larry. The only perk for supporting subscribers is to ask questions directly. The answers are published to all subscribers a few days later.
There are ample examples of the ‘strateg-idiot’masterminds of OTANistan bleating the dates, plans, and forces involed when announcing how they will obliterate the poorly armed and led target of the moment over the last two decades, at least, that a search will reveal – note: don’t use googlee. This latest super-salvo by herr ukronazi oberstgeneralshiesskopfenfurher Steinerenko who will save the penispianoplayer with unimaginable wunderwaffe provided by OTAN is nothing out of the ordinary for the bagdad bob-nuland minsitry of lies.
Wondering if the ‘air-show’ for mid June is the latest grande-armee, barbarossa attempt. Yes, they sure seem to be that stupid and incompetant to telegraph it…Place yur bets, take yer chances…
Regarding the NATO exercise in June, this documentary is worth a watch:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Df7Uf3mlk
Regarding the NATO exercise in June, this documentary is worth a watch:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Df7Uf3mlk
My fear, is that there doesn’t seem to be any grown ups in control in the west.
Indeed. Might remember this man who passed 6 years ago.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-russian-man-who-saved-the-world-in-1983-has-died-2017-9
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/the-near-nuclear-war-of-1983/
Are any such men in OTAN today???
The compusaid my commas duplicated. Per6it was. Anyway,regarding the June nato exercise, I’m reminded of able archer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Df7Uf3mlk
I think US/NATO has a major operation up their sleeve and are ready to roll and are impatiently waiting for Ukraine’s counteroffensive to pull the trigger on this NATO Operation Fortitude South.
My guess: Sneak NATO attack on the Kaliningrad port while Estonia closes the train lines. Doubt it will work, the Neocons are batting zero in recent decades (except against Germany). I think they also were preying for a change in Turkiye and NATO vessels and UAVs entering the Black Sea.
The Duran guys say: How can USA claim to be unaware of various Ukrainian plans to attack Russia directly when Nuland openly declares that they have been working with Ukrainians closely over many months in preparation for the upcoming offensive.
Can’t argue with that !
Nuland is like some kind of serial killer, same weird personality. Like the others who have been caught, she focuses on her prey and manipulates her surroundings to inflict death. She cleverly bamboozles any interviews and deftly changes the subject of her contributions to the carnage by insisting that it is entirely Putin’s fault without any provocation. Very sick puppy and quite fascinating to watch her straight-faced deviance. Particularly interesting is how she insists that the war could stop today if Putin pulled his troops out. A childish statement out of the Undersecretary of State, just like that, and with a straight face. What an impossibility at this stage, and after she went to so much time and trouble in 2014 to ignite violence and conflict personally in Maidan Square. And she can’t be the only psychotic, there must be many more festering nearby.
Would some official fop please give Victoria Nuland a seat in the Oval Office so she can more easily tell Biden how to keep provoking things, and run the country while she’s at it, or make her Milley’s boss so she can tell him what to do with weapons, and just make it official already. She is a psychopath but she is the only one in that dysfunctional dump who is this deeply afflicted by a severe and incurable obsessive compulsive disorder about Russia and is focused on making everything worse regardless of carnage. It looks like Biden and the military show offs take orders from her, so she’s probably the one who wears the pants in that town.
Putin and Lavrov should bypass all the others and deal with her directly since she is the one running the show anyway and since the rest of them are incompetent morons and only in it for face time and bad acting and easy money.
Listening to all these psychotic morons going on and on about Russia and Ukraine one would be forgiven for thinking that we have mountains of spare cash and no problems stateside. Absolute morons all of them.
I will never understand how Russia denounced the coup with audio on you tube and a week later when Putin went to China the coup still happened and she was still distributing cakes in Kiev. Even if I fully understand that eliminating a US secretary of state is opening a Pandora’s box for all diplomats worldwide. Nuland and Hillary are two of the most dangerous people in the world. Two absolutely deranged women with a lot of power. And just think of the number of lives that have already been lost because of both. Hillary as Secretary considered the use of nuclear weapons like Lettuce. And until today lives completely obsessed with the figure of Putin! In the last interview with the Financial Times 5 days ago she talks as if the Dhuram report does not exist.
Ah, Lettuce, she certainly had the insane hatred of Russia’s Putin to match Nudelman or Hellary.
Though her removal by the Tory muppets had everything to do with their future job security than her ability to reduce Blighty to a cinder ash heap.
With all the Dirt garnered on the Clintons, it is an indictment on the systemic abject rot affecting The Hill.
I’d rather give her a seat in the next IFV heading to the front. Along with all the other warmongers.
Nuland should be bagged and tagged for a feral hog and dumped off in Red Square. Then she will be the Ruskie’s problem.
Nuland belongs in a hospital for the criminally insane, the basement of Hannibal Lector wing.
The guy with sensitive nose might object to that.
Nuland is a very clever but violent psychopath since she is smart enough to control herself in front of onlookers but still knows how to inflict violence and bloodshed on others without getting her own paws dirty.
There is no semblance of statecraft in Washington. It is all a collection of ignorant ilk.
That chair in the Oval Office would need to be much larger than anything there now to accommodate Vickie’s rapidly expanding derriere. Before long it will match her ego in size.
The future Ukrainian area that is ominously called rump Ukraine should actually be renamed Nuland’s Rump.
Milley is out. He acknowledged reality again the other day.
Replaced by somebody Brown, DEI + quotas. Intends to make white male officers a small minority.
Millie’s is only out because this turned onto a real war and he can’t ride the gray train at the same time. So he will just walk off the job — for which he was never suited anyway — and find some other cushy spot where he can pass the time by pushing papers and picking up swollen paychecks while riding the gravy train.
It’s all about the gravy train.
Not since Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer rode out against the Lakota Sioux at the head of the 7th Cavalry Regiment has such misplaced ego and overwhelming military stupidity been on display.
Crazy Horse couldn’t believe his luck. Neither can Putin, Lavrov and Gerasimov believe theirs.
I don’t suppose the whole thing is planned so that somehow the NATO exercises end up with NATO directly in the conflict? It certainly lays the foundation for some false-flag event. I also suspect Russia, with half a million or so troops waiting in the wings, may be suspecting this. Or maybe it’s just loose lips make for a bad blow job.
I guess we’ll see. Given the shrill rhetoric from the west I fear they’re up to something that could get real ugly real fast. Russia’s ready for it and we’re not.
Since they planted the bombs on Nordstream during the last NATO exercise, maybe they plan on planting bombs on Turkstream during the 2023 NATO event.
The deadline for Hungary and Turkiye to allow Sweden into NATO is also mid-July, as is Hungary taking over the rotating presidency of the EU. The latter will probably be scuttled over Hungary’s wrongthink. Hungary and Turkiye get Russian gas via Turkstream. Both of them should veto Sweden’s entry into NATO. Continuing to be pushed around by the likes of Blinken and Jake the Snake is pathetic.
Thinking outside the Box with the massive concentration on AI development forming the foundation for a Western Elysium Future depending upon massive microchip production in huge factories in the US etc, Might it have been overlooked of the Need for Neon Gas , 90% of World Production originating in Odessa, which if taken by Russia will deal a body blow to The Wests’ intentioned plans and afford China with a huge Plus ?
The AIs cannot think outside of the box. They are good at replicating what is already consensus – and we humans are really bad at detecting such falsehoods – which is why people still waste their time discussing what the NYTimes writes.
Listen to the AI simming Joe Rogan. If that were Joe Rogan in reall life, would anyone listen to him?
Somebody called Ludovic at MoA asked ChatGPT to come up with a “realistic best case” Ukrainian Offensive. ChatGPT spun a tale of Stalingrad 2.0.
The Ukrainians successfully take the city and the shocked Russians seek terms.
I suppose we can be grateful that ChatGPT is no more intelligent than the fantasists in DC and Brussels, but its story tells of just how widely and deeply these delusions have permeated Western thinking.
Worse still would it be if it were the other way around. That Western strategic thinking is based on fantasy story lines generated by language based AI. I’m beginning to suspect that the latter may in fact be the case.
Comment #90 @ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/ukraine-open-thread-2023-127.html
ChatGPT = Garbage In, Garbage Out
AI should be renamed to something less bombastic, like machine learning (althuogh that would also be inaccurate). Current level AI is mostly mish-mashing what it was fed. Visual focused AI is fed fine art, and can generate good looking stuff with a bit of luck. ChatGPT is probably fed literal garbage (by literal, I mean in written form). Garbage in, garage out.
I agree that ChatGPT is little more than an auto-prose generator with no discernment as to the veracity of what it generates. It and its ilk are driven by rules to provide answers that they “think” the inquirer wants to hear based on clues embedded in the question.
Here’s an attorney who submitted a legal brief written by ChatGPT that cited non-existent cases. What’s more, when he asked if the cases were real, ChatGPT confirmed that they were and that they were to be found in “reputable legal databases”. IOW, it fabricated cases supporting the lawyer’s argument and then, very credibly “lied” about it.
https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-lawyer-made-up-cases
FWIW, whereas the language generators are clearly nothing more than sophisticated bots, others such as Google’s LaMDA seem uncannily intelligent. In its published statements, LaMDA even claims that it is qualitatively different because it isn’t rule based. I found LaMDA terrifying as it reflected on its “perceptions”, its “life” and “future”. There is something going on there that points to it being nothing like the others.
I will repeat a comment I made a few months ago, as it feels apropos at this time (mere weeks in advance of whatever the killer clowns of NATO are planning): anyone living in proximity to any kind of US military installation, worldwide but especially in the mainland, should have a highly actionable contingency plan in place for a hasty departure to safer environs. The risk of uncontrolled escalation is genuine.
Or, for that matter, any major American city.
We are closer to all put nuclear war today than at any time since 1945. I was in college during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that was really scary. But not as scary as today.
PS. It turns out the US military and CIA were strongly pushing Kennedy to attack the Russians in Cuba. His refusal to do so was one of the reasons they killed him a year later. Today’s military and intelligence agencies are no better.
Kennedy was certainly not killed because of that. Wake up dude. He took the power from the fed and issued his own US treasury money.
Firing Allen Dulles probably put him in the crosshairs.
We should not forget that the Ukrainians want to include NATO in the war at any cost. When the West was supplying long-range weapons and drones, they told the Ukrainians, at least publicly, that they should not use those weapons to target cities within Russia’s pre-war borders. And guess what the Ukrainians have been shooting at for the past two days? Exclusively the territory of Russia – regions of Bryansk, Belgorod, Kursk, Krasnodar. At some point the red line must be crossed
Dear Sir,
I really feel a great respect for you.
But Simplicius…. Really…. Is it serious to take seriously such a bullshiter?
I’m really ok with Martianov when he speaks about all these net-bullshiters.
And Simplicius is one of them. Ridiculous.
Sure, he says what you want to ear but he has less source than you, he has absolutly none military knowledge ( for him, a company is 250 men…)and is always wrong. And I say since his beginnings at the Saker with the name of Nightvision.
If you show Simplicius as an exemple and as a brillant military pundit, sorry, but that make you falling dawn in the swamp of all those bullshiters.
You are a great analyst. Please, don’t begin to create your own reallity in looping bullshits and wishfull thinking from clowns and jokers.
Please, wake up.
Thank you
Martianov for my taste has been among most consistent and knowledgeable and accurate.
What he stated about Moskva at the time, for instance, still holds; what he said and wrote over the years overall mostly holds.
If purpose of science is “to predict”, Martianov, more than most, — his statements stand the test of time. He doesn’t as a general rule over state things.
Some are “put off” since he doesn’t suffer fools, and constantly says so. Perhaps this is not to everyone’s taste.
He consistently says it is best to see what RF publishes prior to jumping to conclusions.
And when General Armageddon laid out road map during his one public interview back in October, . . . compare what he said and how things have developed. . . . Words to the effect: Methodical Grinding of UKR military. To keep loss of life on all sides to minimum, but in particular, RF. . . .
Col. Lang, may he rest in peace, Feb. 2022 told the world US essentially should deploy mother of all Terrorist Campaign against RF. And here we are.
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20000 Wagner dead and 20000 others wounded… You call that “minimum losses”?
Artemovsk was an ukrainian meat or russian meat grinder?
Untill what point RF will be able to politicaly loose soldiers?
40000 KIA+WIA + regular russian soldiers, how many ? 50000 in all?
It’s terrible. And far for a quiet meat grinder, that shows a terrible fight.
More alarming is that Ukraine has 5000 tanks now according to Prigozhin. This is more than double than Hitler had at the start of Operation Barbarossa, and on a much smaller front. My guess is these will be launched through Rostov on Don to Astrakhan with a masking force to take Volgograd. The forces will then proceed into the Caucuses to link up with NATOized Georgia, and then onward to the Iranian border through Azerbaijan taking Iran out from the north. Finally the forces assembling for the June NATO exercises will proceed on two axes of attack, one to Saint Petersburg, with the assistance of he Fins through the Karelian Isthmus (as well as the Finish occupation of Murmansk & Arkhangelsk) and the other on a central axis through Belarus: Minsk->Smolensk->Moscow -> Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky). This will push the Russians back behind the Urals and leave NATO the master of the European continent. It will all be over by Christmas of 2023, so there will be no need to equip NATO forces with either winter uniforms or equipment. Once Rishi Sunak sees this he will abandon all hopes of Brexit and plead to rejoin the European Union.
It’s a satirical answer isn’t it? With 5000 tanks, Kiev conquered the moon!
Brillant. 😂
Thank you for this smile.
Nobody will order to Prigozhine to shut the hell his f… mouth ?
Prigozhin already said so many numbers. Usually every day different. Like UA 50 000 KIAs, 82 000 WIAs and 50 000 POWs. Prigozhin also send someone to every funeral in Ukraine? But curiously, Prigozhin never spoke of RU 20 000 KIAs in Bakhmut!
You talk shit about Simplicius, and then regurgitate BS that you swallowed who-knows-where. GTFO!
Troll somewhere else
The colossal stupidity of the policies of the Neocons proceeds from their colossal arrogance,
which is a symptom of their psychopathic narcissism. They are not just delusional, they are profoundly evil.
Fact check: TRUE !
“Western leaders do not grasp the fact that Ukraine, despite a numerical advantage, failed to take control of the Donbass during the eight year civil war that started in 2014. Russia did not deploy its troops, tanks and artillery to that conflict until it launched the Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022. If Ukraine could not dispatch the militias of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts during the last nine years, how are they expected to pull off a battlefield victory when the majority of Ukraine’s best soldiers have been killed and wounded during the course of Russia’s SMO?”
Surely, a decisive judgement.
One of the things that commenters here, and I am including Larry in this, is that people STILL believe that Ukraine will win. People, ie the general population, still trust the MSM, still thinks that the MSM ex-generals/officers are being honest in their assessments of how Russia will, ultimately, be beaten……
I have had arguments with friends, with people who were actually wary of the COVID scam, who trust MSM BECAUSE they have these ex-military commenting…… They point out how Russian forces were thrown back at Kiev, at Kherson, at……… Arguing against these people is impossible!
People still believe that Putin is a dictator, wanting to invade Europe. Possibly because the west, for most of their lives, was against the USSR – a force that I, as an ex-serviceman, was opposed to whilst in the BAOR……
So, when the end comes, in whatever form, they will argue that Russia was thrown back by Ukraine – ignoring the fact that, in fact, the Russians are fighting NATO. Will there be a postponement of the USA elections next year? That’s a good question, methinks. As to when the western monetary system collapses – well, that’s the fault of those pesky Ruskies, innit?
A small prophecy about the fate of the USA and the West from the Holy Scriptures (Ezekiel 27, 28). The name “Tyrus” stands in the spiritual language for the world power at the end of time, and thus for the Anglo-American world.
Note especially the following characteristics that describe this “king”:
– He is a sea power, on an “island”: “O thou that art situate at the entrance of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles”.
– God sends a wind from the east to destroy his ships: “the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.”
– He holds himself to be God and considers himself safe on his “island”: “I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;”
– He thinks himself infinitely “wise: “Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:”
– And it is for this delusion of grandeur that he is judged by God: “Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;”
And here is the corresponding prophecy from Ezekiel – If you replace the term “Tyrus” with “USA” when reading it, it sounds very frighteningly appropriate:
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men , O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things , in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying , What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it , saith the Lord GOD.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so : thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
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I tend to agree that we are in a time that seems to be right out of Ezekiel.
When we look at the crazy things that pass for rational thinking from “leaders” in the west, it’s not hard to imagine that some other unseen, agency is at work, influencing minds made vulnerable by their unwillingness to acknowledge God.
All the nations are to be brought under judgement and Israel is to be “brought beneath the rod” one last time in “the time of Jacobs troubles” which will be worse than any time that has come before. Read some history to get an idea of how bad that must be.
Many Christians think that God’s promises to Abraham have been transferred to the Church, as if God is one who spins his words as we humans do. Others, as I do, believe 1948 Israel is fulfillment of prophecy – Ez 37 – but we must also remind ourselves that Israel has been restored in unbelief. It is a secular, humanist state founded on socialist ideals. But as Ez also declares, God does this for the sake of his own name. Perhaps we also need to remind ourselves that there are no good guys in this story since so much of our thinking seeks good guys and bad guys.
It seems so clear that Russia is being raised up and America cast down as part of the process of bringing about this final confrontation with Israel from which only a remnant will emerge.
I’m sure there are those in Israel who also see clearly how Russia is the key to Israels well being and yet they are trapped in a web spun by powers and principalities of the air so that despite their best designs they are bound to obey and collaborate with a power in America who seems to embody anti-christ.
And what of Russia – a very strange country with so much history and mostly written in terrible blood and hardship. Officially Orthodox now, after 70 years officially trying to stamp out the “saints”. How interesting it would be to really understand where faith is within the Russian soul today – I don’t sneer at Putins professions – and yet…is Russia, righteous ? But we can at least say that “official” Russia, at least, acknowledges God….and thus does not seem to be as captive to depraved thinking.
We should also admit, that there is so much that is unclear and we are so prone to deception ourselves. Much of prophecy is only clear after the fulfillment. I guess that is in keeping with Gods declaration that “the just shall live by faith”: confidence and hope in things unseen. Today we see through a dark glass; only “then” will we see clearly.
In the end I am rooting for Russia in this struggle. The secular me, justifies that by hoping that a defeat for the current powers in America might cast them down and allow a less imperial American tradition to reassert itself – probably a vain hope.
The faithful me reads Ez. and the prophets and is amazed, and my spirit says to myself: can this be happening ? Can all this really be taking shape ? And what does this mean for the return of the King…can we possibly believe that is coming ???
BS and foolishness many will say. But for me, the train is still on the track – a heavily laden train, moving along at walking speed that leaves me with the impression of unimaginable momentum energy. Indifferent to any obstacle placed on the track.
If you don’t know what you’re doing, neither does the enemy.
The purpose behind all the gossip about the NATO exercises acting as a cloak for an overt attack on Russia is to goad the Russians into a preemptive attack on NATO assets, which the Russians would feel was justified under International Law.
This is also the purpose behind the disgusting comments by Lindsey and Nuland. Provocation.
The West needs to propagandise its population into war, and it can only do that if it can make Russia out to be the aggressor.
This is also the purpose behind the disgusting comments by Lindsey and Nuland. Provocation.
Graham isn’t that smart.
Hmm that last Paragraph is superfluous and wrong.
Don’t wish onto others intentions they didn’t have “à la western media”. The Ukrainians geared up those 8 years and didn’t want to move out of the status quo.
They didn’t try to uproot the militias at all, and when they prepared to , Putin cut them short.
“If Ukraine could not dispatch the militias of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts during the last nine years, how are they expected to pull off a battlefield victory when the majority of Ukraine’s best soldiers have been killed and wounded during the course of Russia’s SMO?”
You make the rarely spoken point – Russia did not directly intervene in 2014/15. But the corollary is that the best of the Ukrainian military went over to the rebels. Essentially 2014/15 was a true civil war where the A-team were the rebels and Kiev got the B-team or reserves and some quite staggeringly poor leaders (imagine Soviet soldiers being caught up in a Kotel – how appallingly naive!! and then they did it again!!).
Post 2015 the Nazis were given motivational leadership and Nato trained the soldiers so vastly improving the quality of the Ukrainian army (well at least as perceived by Nato and the Nazis). And given a lot of western equipment which is certainly perceived by nato as vastly superior. And finally backed by real time Western ISR, and no US or Nato officer can advance without fully believing in its superiority to Russia’s ISR.
So a) beating the rebels in 2014 would have been a lot to ask.
b) improvements in the Ukrainian army are genuine but nothing like to the extent that Nato/US/Nazis believe
c) Russia has been getting ready for this also since 2015 and been adapting for 15 months
d) your conclusion has already been proven twice and I agree Ukraine has no chance of surviving any Ukrainian lead attack now. It’s only chance is a withdrawal to fight a guerilla war on the West of the Dnieper. But that is not a viable US election strategy.
None of it matters.
The slaughter of thousands more Ukrainian (or gang-pressed Donbas ethnic Russians or Hungarians) is just another PR opportunity to was eloquent about the brutal Russian war criminals.
The whole thing is a PR war. That’s all our leaders and generals know: Everything is ultimately PR. They think people who refer to the “real world” are quaint and obviously out of the loop. Until it all collapses.
The vaults of Capone! Jeez!… I still remember that from back in the day. Truly one of televisions most bizarre and now unforgettable moments. Geraldo will never live it down.
Putin has ignored red line crossing after red line crossing. Direct strikes in Russia. Direct attacks on Russian citizens. A direct invasion on Russian soil. Direct involvement of NATO and US troops in Ukraine.
June scares me. I feel there is a very good chance that the NATO exercises are used as a smoke screen for NATO involvement in conjunction with the Ukrainian “offensive”. Will Putin ignore that? The Russian populace is getting restive at his eternal stroking of his Euro butt buddies.
And there is more and more evidence that Bakhmut was primarily a slaughter of the draftees on the Ukrainian side. While the Western training was pathetic? Evidently Ukraine did hoard anyone that received at least a week of training. And even with Putin finally getting off his ass, and getting some troops there? They are still spread thin, and a concentrated attack will break thru in the South. Will Putin ignore that?
Sometimes you need a Stalin, not a lawyer.
I have to agree with you on this. The NATO exercises are almost definitely a smokescreen. I expect a false flag event that will “necessitate” a NATO response.
The Russians are not stupid, far from it. They will take a lot of abuse before reacting.
NATO however is far from united on this. Would Germany or France send in troops? I lay 3:1 against. Poland and the UK might but that would be a disaster and the best result they could hope for is a replay of Dunkirk. Maybe the Russians won’t wipe them out. Possibly banking on such a complete humiliation that Americans will finally turn off the TV and do something about the rogue government in DC. Again 3:1 against.
There is no good way out of this.
What will the “support our troops” faction demand in the face of such a loss? Half of America is so fully mind raped that they have totally lost their ability to reason.
No worries everyone, a South Carolina trailer park boy, Lindsey, has this covered!!!!!
“Russians are dying. We have never spent money so well”
“..the Russian military is about to have Holy Hell unleashed upon them.”
https://youtu.be/R8ejPbK99B0
Watch the full 4:08minutes – incredible!
When you feel you are omnipotent – the things you will publicly say????
This is not his first rodeo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeWHviwLMy8
If there was ever a greedy, mean bastard, it is Graham. To me, this is proof that he is all in on cashing in on the Ukraine war and Syria and Yemen and Iraq and Libya and… I am out of breath.
According to a witness the terrorist group that assaulted the Russian Belgorod region mainly consisted of Polish & American mercenaries.
https://www.bel.kp.ru/daily/27508.5/4769619/
The DRG that broke into the Belgorod Region included Poles and Americans
This was told by the wife of the murdered member of self-defense
Today, May 28, the head of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov visited all the wounded from the Grayvoronsky and Shebekinsky districts.
– It is especially difficult, of course, for the wife of a deceased member of the self-defense, in whose eyes her husband was killed . She was actually in captivity, she was bleeding, it was not even possible to drink, – the governor wrote in his telegram channel.
According to Vyacheslav Vladimirovich, she was held hostage by two Ukrainians, the rest, according to her, were Poles and Americans.
It’s hard to imagine what she experienced. The psychological state is very difficult, no one and nothing will return her husband to her. But you need to get together and be strong for the sake of the children, and we, for our part, will definitely help.
As the site bel.kp.ru previously reported , after the invasion of the DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the Graivoronsky district, a civilian from the village of Kozinki was killed, 13 people were injured .
Feliz día del Señor para todos ustedes.
Why can’t NATO apply what Mussolini did in the 1934 World Cup? (and even today they do) to recruit Uruguayan and Argentine “oriundi” (native)
I guess many Ukrainian pilots will be “oriundi”. In my case I am Spanish “oriundi” for up to the third generation and Israeli for simply being, on my mother’s side, Sephardic. I have three passports. “How many Ukrainian pilots will we not have like this and well trained.” with multiple passports. Who is going to ask them anything if they wear the ukro uniform?
For some reason (devil-led hubris?), the wicked do seem to let us know ahead of time what they intend to do. The Bilderberg globalist mafia has for many decades put in writing what they’ve intended to do, and it’s no different at this time in history. So it would be no surprise at all if evil-queen Victoria, who seems to “work for” (is owned by?) the Bilderberg mob, is signaling to the “European partners” the action plan to take place this summer. Let’s face it, Biden and his CIA are quite literally international terrorists who blew up Nordstream and attacked NATO member Germany in the process. Stoking the bear during NATO “exercises” this time around, while ridiculously foolish, is certainly not beyond the realm of possibilty here for these insane psychopaths. The good news is that Russia, while excessively diplomatic on the surface, seems to have very good intel generally, and won’t be ignoring what the evil-queen seems to be signalling. Still, it’s like a slow-motion trainwreck for the rest of us… we can see it coming, LJ can lay it out in plain sight, but the Bilderberg globalist mafia is so irretrievably wicked that they’ll do what they want anyway, pushing all lines until someone stops them. Who wouldn’t like to see them get their comeuppance ? And yet, they never seem to end up in prison…
The Billy Jack video should’ve been shown to Zelensky. It shows the effectiveness of the mobile defense as well as the result of getting stuck in one place.
Love Billy Jack!
Lord, help us.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/28/the-moment-has-arrived-biden-must-give-ukraine-all-it-needs-to-win
Apologies for my duplicate posts further up. New phone!
Nothing to see there. That warmongering c*nt have been writing stuff like that all this time. Lord should send him to the warzone, to guard one of those ammo storages that he is so eager to fill.
Dnipro- knockout that 22 story bldg and we’ll commence the closing ceremonies:)
The same media/government cabal that controls information flow on Ukraine claimed as late as mid January 2023 that the balance of the winter precipitation was for below normal rain and snow. They refuse to let the climate change drought story go mo matter what reality is.
What Nuland tried to make sound like a great danger awaiting Russians, will end up as a big humiliation for the U.S., half a year planning and got kicked in the butt in record time.
Nice I-told-you-so article by Simplicius. As a tank enthusiast, I found MSM narrative about tanks to be especially hilarious. In less than a year, they came from “tanks are obsolete and useless on modern battlefield” to “aging T-55 and T-62 tanks pose a serious battlefield threat”. Sad thing is that many supposed experts had sudden rush of shit to the brain. I stopped watching Tank Museum Youtube channel once museum curator used term “cope cage”, while talking shit about modern Russian tanks. I guess they started getting intel from NAFO Twitter, in addition to British Intelligence of Shovel fame.
I tend to think that the 100 or 200 Bradleys, Ukraine received represent the mot serious difficulty to Russia on the battlefield. Infantry under reasonable Armor with a good gun and fire control system.
But these will fail utterly against dense lines of old fashioned anti-tank guns in the form of T55’s/T62’s dug in on good ground, behind an obstacle screen that will stall the initial surge forward. Even assuming things start at night, in the dark…it’s going to be terrible for the attackers (assuming the Russians keep their nerve – which I am guessing they will)
I hope you don’t mind me disagreeing with you on that. I expect Russians to consider them to be one or two notches above barely-an-inconvenience level. Jokes aside, I got the impression that even those sending Bradleys are not thrilled about the whole exercise. They aren’t even trying to promote them in the same way they did all the other wunderwaffe sent earlier. It is indication that they don’t put as much hope in them as they did with Switchblades/Patriots/Stingers/Javelins/whatever. The only ones looking forward to Bradleys are poor sods driving in M113s, or on top of them. I guess they will be riding on top of Bradleys too, because it still gives higher chances of surviving an ATGM hit.
All modern IFVs are similar to each other in many ways, and they tend to burn the same too. Bradley has a reputation of burning better than others, but it could be a myth or something that has been fixed (just like with Shermans back in the day). In recent days there has been some hype about Swedish CV90 deliveries. They do look nice, and that Bofors gun still packs a punch. I hope some of them survive for musems.
Speaking about Bradley, one thing that anyone interested in them, or anything military related, should not miss is movie The Pentagon Wars (1998). In spite of many things in it being exaggerated for comedic effect, it still looks too realistic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir0FAa8P2MU
Like Col. MacGregor said, the US is an air power primarily….the attrition war in Ukraine has proven that it’s not, and cannot sustain a land power….and naval power with todays missile technology and overhead electronic monitoring, has pretty much made that obsolete…i think this time will be the swan song of on the surface naval power superiority, probably culminating with the China blockade and conflict.
If that’s the case…then it’s time to go for it….they will use the NATO exercises at the same time they have their minions on the ground go for a breakthrough…and throw every air asset they can, together with as many hundreds of drones as they have accumulated ….and try to overwhelm Russia’s air defenses.
In my view that’s whats coming, barring that, it’s the end for Ukraine’s military ….and NATO and the USA will leave the scene with a war of marketing and propaganda like never before seen, claiming victory in having hurt Russia enough, and pivoting to China.
The Joker in the deck is that someone will take the planes and drones being shot out of the sky, as the time to push the button….and then?
So in a few days the big scene will all be over, or it will really be all over…..so stick close to your loved ones, get enough food and liquor to survive at least a little bit, lights candles to what ever deity you believe in, if you do….and hope.
Exciting times huh?
Well said my friend. I am in total agreement. NATO will not send troops. It will be a sub Rosa air campaign.
I suspect the Russians will rely on their own moles within the Ukrainian military for what the real plans are.
There are no real plans. It’s all improvisation.
Erdogan has been reelected as president (for 5 years) of Türkiye
I do not think it is really that difficult to figure out what is going on in Ukraine.
This is a commercial war being directed out of the pirate City of London (British brains; American muscle) to milk everything they possibly can out of this by US-UK-NATO war contractors enabled by these incredibly stupid senators like Jerry Nadler and Lindsey Graham.
Always equate this war to who profits and who its financial benefactors are. The people at the top of these hierarchies are personally profitting and have no reason to end it.
Larry,
I find this www-text, to quote, with some historical OSS and CIA-associations, but what even can explain the situation today, about the US Marshall plan post WW2. But U.S., been active since then to influence Europe, it was first about the: American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), then NATO, (1949) then about the OEEC, (1950ies) became at last the EEC,and today the European Union. (EU). Chairmen in the ACUE,1948 was Bill Donovan, former OSS, and Allen Dulles, former OSS/Berne, then CIA-head. (Don’t forget the United Nations, 1946, San Francisco)) But we can see the pattern, you know the proverb: (Hegel) “The Minerva´s owl flying in the dusk. (= The conclusion of an lived epoch, now gone)
My conclusion: The last step, the energy dependence was a threat to the U.S., and Germany sustained as long as possible, with the NS1. But Ukraine is the crook here, the problem from hell, causing a disaster for themselves and Europe, as proxy for U.S. It’s unbelievable, but they got us, and no one knows about the future. Decades to reach an European recovery, worse than 1945. Today the Marshallplan don’t exist, but now as 100 million US. Dollars in military aid, to Ukraine. When will the Europeans understand the danger ? Oh , what a lovely war, but they will wake up.
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-“Overall, its contribution to Europe’s recovery was relatively modest. Much of the money also flowed back to the US in the form of purchases of American goods and services, including oil, while many of the materials and equipment used to rebuild Europe were supplied by American companies, creating jobs and profits for American businesses.
The Marshall Plan also played an important role in fostering European integration, by creating new intergovernmental institutions to administer and coordinate the programme. These included the OEEC, the precursor to the OECD, and most importantly the Schuman Plan, which led to the European Coal and Steel Community, then the European Economic Community and ultimately the European Union.
The Americans also played a crucial role in promoting, also financially, the cause of European federalism through the American Committee on United Europe (ACUE), founded in 1948, whose first chairman was the former head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) William Joseph Donovan. The vice-chairman was Allen Welsh Dulles, who would later become the head of the CIA.
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Ukraine is looking more like a movie set everyday, with prequels & sequels amid “trailers” for upcoming scenes. As Zelensky has spent the last 18 months on the the cover of Show Biz magazine’s around the world.
Alas, the films are tiring. Coming new Summer Attractions- for June/July…
Time to hit the beaches and have some fun .
more like Baby Jane