I was limited in what I could write last week because I was attending a week long training course in order to be certified as a Firearms Instructor who is authorized to train other instructors. I was in class or on a range for 11 hours a day, which is why I was unable to appear on the Judge’s podcast. A conversation with the Judge is always engaging and, I hope, educational. I’m back in my home office and the Judge graciously invited me for a virtual sit down. Note, he has a new intro and new sponsor. As a firearms instructor I can recommend the “head rest” safe that is sponsoring his show as a good system for transporting your hand gun (and no, I’m not getting paid to say so). Just an honest, informed opinion.
I want to underscore a point I raised with the Judge — no matter what “progress” Ukraine is able to achieve in its offensive, it will not change the tactical and strategic reality on the ground in Russian controlled territory. Ukraine is utterly dependent on NATO for its supply of tanks, ammunition, artillery, armored vehicles and combat air craft. Ukraine no longer has the capability to produce those items in Ukraine and NATO’s supplies of those weapon systems is being depleted with no immediate chance of replacing those items. That is an objective fact and no amount of spin will alter that reality for the foreseeable future.
Then there is the manpower issue. Ukraine does not have an unlimited supply of trained soldiers. Nope. A significant number of its most qualified soldiers, both officers and non-commissioned officers, are dead or suffering from disabling wounds that prevent them from returning to front line units. Even if the NATO countries scrounge up some tanks, artillery or planes, Ukraine does not have an ample number of trained personnel capable of operating those systems.
The reality of these deficits will become more apparent during the course of the next month and both Ukraine and NATO will be compelled to make some dangerous choices — i.e., surrender or commit NATO forces to the battle. While many leaders in the West continue to express the vain hope that Ukraine will find a way to continue to drag out this war because of Russian ineptitude, I think that is delusional. If any of you have other information or insights that can explain how a stalemate is a viable reality please share.
Europe is sliding rapidly into a recession and this is likely to dampen enthusiasm for pouring more money and materiel into Ukraine. If the NATO pipeline of military supplies dries up then Ukraine is finished. It is a simple matter of logistics.
In saw on Zerohedge that the US army and Air Force are making major recruitment drives for immigrants to join up in retirn for citizenship. You can be sure a lot of them will find themselves as “foreign volunteers” (from Haiti or Honduras, Nepal or Nigeria, Paraguay or the Philippines, of course, nothing to do with the Pentagon, how can you suggest that, are you a Putin bot or something) on the Ukranazi frontline within weeks.
It is already on the mainstream in the US.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2023/0612/Citizenship-fast-track-US-military-entices-immigrants-to-sign-up
If there is a war with the Russians, I don’t think that a lot of these folks understand what an industrialized war is like. It’s far deadlier than a war against the Taliban.
The US is in league with all the other despots in the world and, frankly, with all the other despots in world history. Demonize the enemy and hire someone who is more likely to be brutal and willing to kill upon orders. In the US, the targets of control will be US citizens who feel compelled to protest. Hired immigrants speaking other languages and who are not fluent in English are easier to manipulate They are more likely to fall for the government propaganda and BS. Throw in the bait of citizenship and promises of prosperity and the utility of the illegals is pleasing for the government. If many of the illegals are already criminals and have no respect for law nor morals, they are a “treasure” for the establishment.
Wow. There is no more sure sign that America is doomed than the fact that it can’t even get its own citizens to defend it.
Defend it? Oh, you must mean against the invasion from the South.
Yes, we will have an immigrant force paid to fight and offered other incentives. A true Mercenary force without roots in America that will not fight for average Americans or our Constitution. It’s the plan, I’ve been told.
one of the major reasons for ancient rome`s eventual demise was the fact that its own mercenary armies turned against it: there`s a clear and obvious lesson for the ruling class of the united states to be learnt here.
rest assured however that it won`t be.
The “foreign volunteers” are US state contract service personnel. They are US DoD. Some might be useful as mercenaries when their contracts are up, but the Ukraine war will be long over. They are being given citizenship so that they can be ‘Americans’ who will shoot those of us who are Heritage Americans unwilling to give up our constitutional rights.
It’s the same reason China used Mongolians to suppress some of the Tiananman-era protests. It’s the same reason that the old Roman empire used to recruit ethnically-cohesive legions (with multiethnic sub-praetorian officers promoted out of other legions) and always sent them to serve on the other side of the empire away from their own home area. Legions in Egypt were NEVER Egyptian, legions recruited in Hispana served in Palestine, etc. It’s always easier to kill at the state’s orders when one does not strongly identify with the victim.
“Heritage Americans”
Is this another term for Native Americans, or do you count them out as subhumans?
Your response is standard-issue communist anti-white propaganda. The internationalists, whether communist or corporatists, do not want European peoples to exist. The first step, because they do not have the capability at present to simply kill us all, is to convince the less discerning amongst us that we don’t exist. Making a taboo of categorizing labels is part of it.
You are attempting to establish a cognitive convention whereby our mere existence requires that we view the rest of humanity as subhuman. It does not follow that just because genetically ethnic French (or English, Heritage American, Russian, German, Greek, Italian, etc) exist that they see anyone else as subhuman.
If anything I am being generous in using the term “Heritage American” and not simply saying “American.” It wasn’t but a half century ago or so ago that almost everyone on this Earth would hear the word “American” and attach to it the meaning I attach to “Heritage American.” That is, in fact, true even today of many people. How many Africans (in Africa) see the Africans in America as “Americans” rather than seeing them as another kind of African (a kind for whom they overwhelmingly have little respect after initial experience)?
It looks increasingly less likely that multi-ethnic polities will be part of the political landscape of this continent after the Globalist American Empire collapses. Whether it’s in 10 years or 100 years, it will happen. We will endure and triumph.
It’s people like you who are narrowing the width of the window of potential cooperation, poisoning the well for future generations. You (plural) don’t recognize that we have a right to exist, and you would rather that we cease to exist. Noted, and not even remotely just by me. The awareness that the conflict we are in is existential war is spreading. Your hatred makes the world a worse place and ensures that it will continue to get worse for everyone. Are you capable of shame?
Horace, the (((people))) that ” do not want European peoples to exist” are the age old traditional enemies of mankind – Zionist Jews. (((They))) have been plotting to ‘disappear’ the European race by interbreeding us with the mud people as they call the African race for centuries. This is something your average Westerner, heavily propagandized by Jewish owned/controlled MSM & Hollyweird, fed a constant diet of 6 million, holocau$t, poor persecuted Jews & the threats of reprisal for even questioning the orthodoxy, has next to no clue about. And the brainwashing is virtually so complete that any mention of (((their))) well documented plan is usually met with howls of “Anti -Semitism”, “Racist” & the other slogans (((they))) have coined to deflect reality. But I’d guess this is not news to the majority of readers here.
Cheers
The Canadian Truckers protest – You know, that perfectly legal, non violent, honking “riot” ended up being put down by some non English speaking thugs . . . . or so the rumours go. There were photos online (I have a copy downloaded, of a white passenger plane – Boeings perhaps? – with “UN” emblazoned on the fuselage that various people posited were carrying pretend “Canadian” police officers from Eastern Europe, involved in the trampling & beating of protesters. With Turdeau, nothing would surprise me.
Fast forward to Wellington N.Z. & the anti-mandate protest ‘camp’ set up in parliament grounds. When it was dismantled the police were exceptionally heavy handed (eye gouging, etc., etc.) & people that were involved were convinced that some were NOT Kiwis. Much easier to get foreigners to be violent if it’s not against their own people.
Cheers.
It is becoming ever more apparent that Trudeau is more useful idiot puppet than evil mastermind. Freeland is the Neo-nazi ringmaster in Canada and has a direct personal connection to both the Soros Clan and Klaus Schwab. Chrystia is on a first-name bass with both those monsters, and was commissioned to write Georgy Swartz’ (sorry, George Soros’) biography before being placed in the Liberal party and Parliament. Schwab even admits to “infiltrating” WEFers into governments world wide.
Singh is the real “keystone” in this little triad, why the NDP grassroots puts up with Singh propping up the Trudeau/Freeland MINORITY gov’t is beyond me. I am surprised that no one has thought to start a Truckers and Farmers Party in Canada, a la the Dutch example.
Yes, the “police officers” that criminally attacked the peaceful Truckers were definitely not all Canadians, as you say flown in from who-knows-where. The mounted police who mowed down the disabled native woman were definitely RCMP Musical Ride and Toronto police. Not surprising given the purely Canadian police used to attack the Toronto G20 protesters and passers-by.
As other posters pointed out, not news that the Romans stocked their legions with foreign soldiers, sent to other areas to be more violent than the locals would impose on their own. Pax Rothschild Class eh?
Oh ya, the dam? Same crew who did Nordsteam? Or the Brit SAS, Norwegians, Poles… any lot of thugs that allow the US Cabal plausible deniability. Zelensky and his “gov’t” probably had no idea if/when it was going to happen, all the more to not have to fake surprise… I even doubt the Biden crew knew the specific details, this stinks of the gone-rogue Nuland NeoCon cabal.
I don’t think that most of the alpha fighters in the US military pool…are interested in a military where the troop are giving each other blow jobs out back..or the female troop are munching carpets.
The trans community is now front line infantry. Send them up front in UKR… and they will also be killed.
I will be interested what happens at the Poland border…as RU is will eventually be there. Nukes. London, Paris, Brussels…all the east coast from NYC to Maryland/Quantico…the Mississippi delta oil refineries…. and on the west coast… SEA/TAC-Brmerton are nuked…and the oil refinery is toast.
PDX< SFO<…. San Diego Naval..the fusion centers… Mid West ICBMs won't make it out of the silo..if they do the space war or the hyper will get them.
What a shit show.
Can’t send TGs to the front line.
They all get pregnant when action threatens and no one in the US military dare claim they are not.
As another participant has written
“Your hatred makes the world a worse place and ensures that it will continue to get worse for everyone. Are you capable of shame?”
I will answer: of course you are not.
They could just identify as turtles and then claim ‘hey, I’m doing the best I can’.
The US military offered the same “deal,” citizen ship to illegals who would serve and fight in the Middle East, Iraq, and Afghanistan Wars.
The Russians created the Wagner Group, a mercenary group comprised of convicts and criminals who are offered freedom in exchange for service.
The United States has more prisons and prisoners than any country in the history of the world, since time began. Why the United States doesn’t do the same thing the Russians are doing to man their military forces is beyond me.
Because most of our prisoners are POC who will rather die in prison than fight for a system that in most cases unjustly imprisoned them for having a few grams of dope
Because most of our prisoners are POC who will rather die in prison than fight for a system that in most cases unjustly imprisoned them for having a few grams of dope
Russia is still an honor based country. I would bet that many of those convicts who signed up did so to restore a sense of honor to their family. And even if he was killed, he would die a hero, and his mother would no longer be ashamed. We no longer have that in America anymore
And Im guessing American prisons are Club Med destinations compared to those in Russia*. So that incentive isnt there as well
*(At least that’s what Britney Griner tells me ;-D)
“…many of those convicts who signed up did so to restore a sense of honor to their family…” Wasn’t the peasant prisoner in “War and Peace” such a family “black sheep”, who filled his peasant family’s draft quota, allowing for the more responsible brothers to go on with normal life?
Maybe because they’re worried about what those ex-prisoners would do when they came back to America as battle hardened veterans?
The Aryan Brotherhood would just jump at the chance to serve in Ukraine, I’ll bet. They could even keep their tattoos.
It has long been a matter of law that immigrants who enlist in the US military are fast-tracked to citizenship. So there is nothing new in this practice. The US military is merely advertising a benefit that has long been there in order to enhance recruiting.
the percentage of foreign nationals under employ at the NSA data fusion centers is presently……
They have been at that racket for a while, but it can backfire badly. Many of the new immigrants or border jumpers signed up and got professional military training and experience, knowledge of weapons, and of course attack strategies. Then more than a few of them returned south of the border where they get bigger pay from the narcotics cartels because they can really attack and fight. We will end up with them crawling the streets of all our cities eventually.
Many thanks to the White House and State Department psychotics, Pentagon fat cats, CIAFBINSAMSM water boys, and the whole rancid Biden racket for putting the entire country at risk so they can buy bigger cars and houses, lounge around expensive resorts, attend the best parties and try to ape the blue bloods. They will never be classy no matter how much blood and treasure they squander. Butterfly wings on a cockroach is still a cockroach. And that town is one big cockroach nest.
Well in that case in must be true. Did you receive your papers yet?
An “immigrant” army with no ties to the country or the people of that country can be used against that country and it’s own citizens.
It’s a chess move against the 71 million privately held firearms in the USA that are the only thing holding back the global mafia. They will be commanded by out group narcissists and toadies.
Offering immigrants the opportunity to join the military in exchange for citizenship sounds mutually beneficial. There is a significant drawback to this deal. Most immigrants that would be interested in the offer are, I suspect, not fluent in English.
The language barrier will make training a challenge. Once in the field, the language barrier will have a detrimental effect on troop cohesiveness.
“If the NATO pipeline of military supplies dries up then Ukraine is finished.”
And, by extension, NATO is finished, if it can’t keep Ukraine supplied, it can’t even supply itself. Should NATO be so foolish as to go all-in, they would find themselves at a critical shortage of everything very soon. Russia and its friends control the supply of most elements critical to arms and aerospace (chrome, titanium, etc.), so good luck trying to ramp up production, I think China maybe needs those things, and has the cash t pay. Meanwhile, in the Pacific….
I imagine the big effort at NATO right now is trying to form some kind of narrative to make tucking tail look like a win. At least that would be the closest thing to “smart” we can hope for from that bunch. Choices are dwindling, pretty much down to 1 of 2.
There is an option that we don’t consider. The nuclear option with or without any Ukraine involvement/agreement
We know that nobody cares about the Ukrainian life (maybe Russia a little bit) & see the ongoing counter offensive, that the sabotage is normal, see the NS1&2 plus the dam sabotage, that NATO doesn’t want to lose precious soldiers (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria soldiers can be sacrificed, because they don’t count), that the ammo and money from the west is drying up, that Ukraine NarcoFuhrer is running out of people, and that the end has to be Russia’s fault.
Based on the above, and many other reasons an easy way out, would be the detonation couple nuclear weapons, if possible, in the cities close to Russia, and/or Kiev, then blame it on Russia.
“The US has nuclear weapons because they are an effective deterrent to other nuclear countries. Ukraine should have the same rights.” ( https://t.me/fred33flint/890 )
Hope the Russian intelligence has a good handle on this scenario.
Certain neocons (Michael Rubin?) have called on Biden to supply Ukraine with tactical nukes. As we know (or should know) the Ukrainians by now, they’d not hesitate to stop at ‘deterrence’ but would within 5 minutes of being handed the launch buttons, use them.
The way I see it, until the neocons and tagalongs are purged of influence, we’ll all end up over a cliff before not too long. We’re solidly on Defcon 3 territory over an internal crisis of insanity.
Russia cannot be allowed to win in Ukraine. — pretty much every European and US politician on the world stage.
The alternative is that if the counter-offensive fails and the UAF begins collapsing, NATO troops would advance into and occupy eastern and southern Ukraine and establish a no-fly zone over that occupation… The point would be to do this under the auspices of “saving Ukraine from annihilation at Putin’s evil hands” — peacekeeping — of course.
Crucially, Russian leaders have mentioned that three more oblasts populated by a majority of ethnic Russians need to be annexed and the rest of Ukraine turned into a demilitarized zone. That Ukraine as a state and political entity would cease to exist.
Everything is in place for a decapitating nuclear strike against Russia and employment of battlefield (tactical) nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Indeed, the Russians have reacted to those US/NATO capabilities being deployed: Many Russian warships left port in the past couple weeks, including those in the Pacific for hastily convened “exercises”, and Russia’s strategic forces are (and have been) on high alert.
If this is the US/NATO plan and threat, how will Russia and Putin answer?
Spanky wrote:
“Everything is in place for a decapitating nuclear strike against Russia and employment of battlefield (tactical) nuclear weapons in Ukraine”.
When the first nuclear weapons crossed the border into Western Ukraine, they were obliterated by Russia, before they even entered the battlefield.
After that incident Russia wowed to attack shipments of Nuclear weapons bound for Ukraine.
Time for Americans on the east coast to wake up.
Andrei Martyanov, iirc, commented on Russia’s nuclear sub deploying last Winter.
The SATAN payloads it carries can obliterate the U.S. East coast.
I do not think Putin is fscking around.
Correction: NATO troops would advance into and occupy eastern and southern Ukraine and establish a no-fly zone over that occupation…
should read
NATO troops would advance into and occupy western and southern Ukraine and establish a no-fly zone over that occupation…
Apologies
This is a very likely scenario. The people who could stage a chemical weapons attack in Ghouta in Syria to serve as a pretext for intervention or a fake uprising against Gaddafi in Libya may find it very expedient to smuggle a small yield fission weapon and detonate it to demolish another hydroelectric dam near Kiev or Kharkov. Then nuclear experts in Ukraine would publish data showing the presence of radioactive signatures of a nuclear detonation. That would provide grounds for NATO intervention. After that all bets are off. The moment NATO forces enter Ukraine, Russia would invoke its nuclear doctrine and launch preemptive strikes against facilities in Poland, Romania and other hostile states. They may then provide an ultimatum: stop immediately or face destruction of UK and the US coastal cities by nuclear tsunami.
The only way to avoid this would be for Russia to publicly announce that in case a nuclear or conventional false flag event staged in the Ukraine is used as a pretext for a NATO direct intervention following other, explicitly mentioned, precedents, Russia would invoke its nuclear doctrine immediately causing a world wide radioactive catastrophe.
This should in fact be published in all the major newspapers in every country not explicitly against Russia in the all the local languages. The resulting outrage should make it clear to NATO that nobody is going to believe their false flag narrative. US elections will be fought on the background of this public outrage in the overwhelming majority of humanity.
With the false flag + NATO intervention option gone, the combined West will face an internal struggle between the pro-war and moderate factions. The moderate faction can blame the pro-war faction for all the bad things and force Ukraine and other European anti Russian countries to accept a total surrender to Russia.
This would be all the east bank of Dnieper, Odessa and Transniestria going to Russia. Poland and Hungary and Lithuania could be bought off by restoration of their former lands and perhaps also the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth. Germany could be bought off by restoration of gas supply. The whole thing depends of proper scapegoating of expendable politicians.
Even that it can be proven by the IAEA who used a nuclear weapon, it will not. Also nobody in the west would support Russia. Any warnings from Russia will be ignored or used as propaganda to claim Russian aggression. The only outrage of western societies will be directed towards Russia. You and those commenting here on other social platforms are a minority. The majority hate Russia and believe their western ruling class.
Any attack on the Russian “nation” will be the end of America and then goes the world.
I think that the people who comment miss the point that Russia made that without Russia there is no world so the IAEA the UN and all the inintial groups opinions wont matter to Russia if America cross’s the big fat red line that we can all clearly see. Did someone mention NATO as a whole Russia doesnt give a monkeys toss about NATO all their focus is on America the leader of the pack.
” all their focus”
Can it really be so?
” the leader of the pack.”
According to The Shangri-Las Jimmy had an accident.
I wouldn´t second that the majority here in Germany hates Russia. It is the political class who give orders to do so, but a substantial amount of people have their own opinion on that and see Russians in a much more positive light if you talk to them in private. However, as it is now a criminal offence to utter anything positive about Russia in public ( as it might be construed as being in support of “Putin´s war”) only very few would ever say that publicly.
Commenters here need to realize that Russia blowing up all the Patriot Systems in Ukraine demonstrated that US silo-based nukes are sitting ducks, no matter where on earth they are located.
The US has no defence against Russian and Chinese hypersonics.
Those hypersonics can carry both conventional and nuke warheads.
Ergo, Russia and China can decapitate the US the US “nuke shield” without using nukes themselves. US nukes destroyed, Russian nukes intact in case the US doesn’t get the message.
Those same conventional hypersonics can sink any US nuke-carrying ship anywhere in the world. That was demonstrated when Russia put a conventional hypersonic through the 12-story GRU headquarters and destroyed the bunker beneath it.
Russian air defence systems would take down US nuke-bombers and the munitions they would launch.
The US/ZATO military position is more like The Emperor’s New Clothes than a Marvel superhero movie.
Doesn’t matter. Any detected incoming missiles to US territory must and will be assumed to be nuclear.
The Reply function was not active for Catch 22’s comment, so:
Correct, whether the hypersonics were conventional or nuke makes little functional difference as the Russian hypersonics would be landing on the US/ZATO nuke silos, ships, US foreign airbases before the US could open the silo doors. Any nukes the US launched would be caught by Russian Air defence systems because the US ballistic missiles are oversized dumb bombs and can’t be re-aimed in flight. Again, slow flying ducks are easy pickings.
And Russian military policy says they can use Conventional missiles without triggering any nuke strike prohibitions, international OR Russian. IF ZATO is stupid enough to directly engage Russia in Ukraine, ALL ZATO countries are then targets… who do you thing Russia will counter-attack? “The Decision making Centres” where ever they are… except the decisions made in Washington, NeoCon or otherwise are predicated on the US vaunted Nuclear Arsenal. Removing that threat would probably get the DEM/REP Uniparty to pass legislation removing the ability of the Executive Branch to wage war… cut the Pentagon War Budget to $Zero… POTUS may be the Commander in Chief and the State Dep’t may rule the EB, but no money, no war.
So ya, it makes no difference EXCEPT that Russia can’t be blamed for the US over-reaction. I’d guess as the launched took place, Russia would announce the warheads were conventional, and if the US launched nukes, the US would be guilty of using nukes in an illegal First Strike policy. Russia and China have no intention of invading the US, just pulling the US/ZATO nuke-threat teeth will do. The US conventional military has already been rendered moot.
The US military has no clothes. The Wannabe Dictator has no idea how bad the over-funded boondoggles the MIC as passed off as wunderweapons are.
See Macron(the Rothschild’s point man in the EU/ZATO) running around trying to get the EU to get off the US warmonger bandwagon? The ever-conniving Rothschild Class is now caught between the NeoCon Nuland Cabal-gone-rogue and Russia/China et.al. saying “this far and no further”.
I think the Rothschilds VERY angry (afraid?) at the US/NeoCon over-reach/incompetence and are speaking through Macron. This may have influenced MBS to jump ship, Saudi Arabia leading the Arab League and actually making peace with Iran/Yemen/Syria.
The US is now the pariah state not Russia/China. Ukraine may be done by this Fall, but the US has a long way to go before this is over… or not. Some of us are old enough to have been adults when the USSR fell, seemingly without any warning. The US is skating dangerously close to similar thin ice.
Don’t be fooled : an Australian university did some research and there are a lots of bots in the banderistan supporters in the web, round 80%. Not brain-dead’s humans , just some computer program posting shit 24/7 on the interwebs.
Most common people don’t care about Russia or it’s borders…Governments , big business and MSM’s do, they are the ones paying the bots and the surveys saying everybody hate Russia. (Putin kicked their ass out of Russia : it’s a revenge for them.)
Ever notice those anti-Russia schoolboy style colorful posters that pop up in out of context places on twitter threads that are not properly following the Ukraine pom pom cheerleader narrative? They’re ubiquitous lately.
That’s either the NAFO crowd or your machine generated bots at work, or both.
Sumant -not a single speech of Putin was conveyed intact to the Western people. It’s hair raising to hear in Russian what Putin actually says vs. how it served to the completely brainwashed “masses” by the blatantly liars like Blinken, Kirby & the Politburo. Even if Putin will make such a direct statement as you suggest, it all will be twisted and cynically perverted and used to heat up the exceptionalism and the “justice”, and even the now still hesitant Americans would demand to nuke Russia and we all know how it will go…
“The whole thing depends of the proper scapegoating of expendable politicians.”
Wow! You’re right. I could start in North America, move thru Europe and pick every single one of them until running up against Orban in Hungary.
The opinion of a public that can be “perception managed” to assume as self-evident truth that crossdressing guys are women matters diddly squat. The only ones in need to be convinced that Russia will hunt them down in the toilets of their atomic bunkers to nuke their a**es won’t be convinced by public announcements. I’ve said it before, I’ll repeat it, you don’t argue with psychopaths. Putin has explained several times Russian nuclear doctrine. Don’t count on Russia to free you. If you can’t free yourself, pray. I don’t think it’ll change anything but if you’re incapable of ridding your country of the psychos running it, that’s pretty much all you have.
sumant says
The neocons may find it smart to smuggle a small yield fission weapon into Ukraine.
Then nuclear experts in Ukraine would publish data showing elevated radiation.
That would provide grounds for NATO intervention.
That has already happened.
Two weeks ago Russia bombed an ammunition depot in western Ukraine resulting in a major explosion with a following mushroom cloud, and the day after, the international (US) deployed radiologist registered elevated Radiation in the area.
Despite that, NATO has not intervened yet.
Why?
Because both NATO and the rest of the world knows who sent the nuclear weapons into Ukraine.
“… both NATO and the rest of the world knows …”
It only matters that some at NATO know and still have enough power to slpw down events. The rest of the world doesn’t matter a whit.
Our rulers need to be taken down. That’s not going to happen at the ballot box, is it? So… the world is essentially committing suicide.
We do not have a media source that would fairly publish such a message from Russia.
Only alternative new sites and bloggers such as this one would carry such a warning
If Americans and Europeans really knew the true facts concerning the SMO and the sundry details of what’s really taken place in/ with Ukraine things wouldn’t be as they are currently.
The other whacky thing going on is that Ukraine is obviously publishing misinformation and fakes to keep up moral for its own population…this is to be expected. However, because of the internet, the Western media must accept (and not contradict) the Ukrainian claims… otherwise Ukrainians would tune into Western media and hear stories that contradict their own press. And this would undermine the war effort. Thus, the Western press is straight-jacketed by the Ukrainian propaganda machine. Example:
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry reacts to trip of NBC journalists to occupied Crimea
https://news.yahoo.com/ukraines-foreign-ministry-reacts-trip-185518491.html
And this creates a problem for US elites who still rely on the MSM to stay informed and that probably includes most of them. How many US Senators for example are reading SONAR 21, Scott Ritter, Douglas Macgregor, etc? And these sources are the only ones providing an accurate picture.
It seems hard to believe that that “information bubble” exists as we are all “truth seekers” here at Sonar 21. However, RFK Jr. just admitted to Glenn Greenwald that he believed RussiaGate was real up until 2020 and Jeffery Sachs appointed Peter Daszak to his commission to investigate the origins of COVID19. Two very intelligent people who should have known better, but didn’t.
I would posit that the uneducated common joe has a better chance at comprehending reality than a Western elite whose memory chips are filled with false and erroneous information. When you start from a place of complete ignorance, you will follow the evidence where ever it takes you, however, when you already think you know, you will dismiss all information that comes to you as disinformation, because it conflicts with what you already “know”. This is a great illustration of the adage: it is easier to learn something new if you are not burdened with having to unlearn something old.
“…memory chips are filled with false and erroneous information. When you start from a place of complete ignorance, you will follow the evidence where ever it takes you, however, when you already think you know, you will dismiss all information that comes to you as disinformation, because it conflicts with what you already “know”. This is a great illustration of the adage: it is easier to learn something new if you are not burdened with having to unlearn something old.”
Sounds very much like a description of people who believe in religious nonsense and fairytales. “It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So” – Mark Twain
The latest scuttlebutt masquerading as ‘insider’ Russian dissident blather and making the rounds is – that Putin has given an order to blow up one of Russia’s mainland nuclear plants in a false flag operation. Think about the total absurdity of that assertion. What’s not absurd is that Ukrainian saboteurs may have been tasked for such an operation.
These Ukrainians with their neocon enablers will stop at nothing until we’re all fuming burnt toast in glass jars.
My Lord.
Poison frogs, Who the h+++ has imprinted that insane idea in your mind.
When the first minor, medium or full nuclear bomb explodes, all of the nuclear bombs in Russia, Germany, England and America will follow in mutual successive retaliation.
When the dust settles humanity will be extinct.
Yes, America will be eradicated from the face of the earth too.
Only insane people can come up with a plan that will destroy your self.
It doesn’t seem acceptable to me that we consider the principle of ‘mutually assured destruction’ as resolved. Even in situations where there is only madness (Blinken, Nuland, Sullivan), that principle itself imposes sanity and moderation. It is true that we have never seen a US administration as psychopathic as ‘Deranged Joe’s’. Psychopaths may not know empathy, but they do know fear.
You mean like how “Nobody creates weapons of mass destruction right on their own doorstep.” [heavy, heavy sarcasm]
“It got loose. It turned on them. Game Over.”
“Only insane people can come up with a plan that will destroy your self (sic).”
Ummm. Since when did sanity count for anything?
to A. Dane
Yes, terrible but true !
“Only insane people can come with a plan that will destroy your self”
Years ago, an extremely intelligent and sensitive person, -a writer of deep thought and narrative- decided to end her days without telling anyone so that no one would intervene and save her from her decision.
The coroner’s rapport said something like this:
She set up a table in the middle of her living room, put a chair on top of the table, climbed up and tied a rope around her neck.
She then drank a full bottle of barbiturates with a bottle of whisky. When the alcohol and barbiturates had their effect on her she fell from above and hung herself.
But she wasn’t consider insane !
She lost touch with the collective reality. She applied a punishment to herself for the impossibility of really belonging to the rest of human beings. She was invaded by a feeling of disgust in front of what we were, according to her.
But instead of trying to eliminate the human race, she eliminated herself, trying to eliminate suffering.
“Only insane people can come with a plan that will destroy your self”
Yes ! and in this atrocious war case, a profound psychological disorder
-psychopathy- of rulers in power are truly The ‘insane people’…
” belonging to the rest of human beings.”
Thank you for your illustration of how some social relations and ideologies in their facilitation are immersed in notions of “property” and interpret non-conformance through constructed “norms” such as “insanity”.
However since change is a constant these vectors are subject to constant change of variable presentations and tempos, thereby undermining the nonsense of the power of “American propaganda” to such a degree that “The United States of America” are attempting to repair “lacunae” in matters of other constructed “norms” namely “perception management” in the hope that perceptions can be managed.
Far more likely is that NATO lets Ukraine fall and works behind the scenes to turn Russian-occupied Ukraine into a COIN nightmare for the Russians. Lord knows, NATO was on the receiving end of this for more than two decades, so they must have learned a thing or two.
Since she volunteered this on TV (“we spent the last 4-5 months war gaming the counter offensive with you guys”) – we should call this the (angry, post-menopausal) “Nuland plan” – it goes something like this:
“push the 404 brigades into a meat grinder even though they don’t have the capacity to take any land or keep it if by any luck they take some, knowing full well that they will be followed by NATO ground forces and NATO air support”.
There, that’s the plan, in my humble opinion. It’s very “simple”.
What, you thought they will stop and admit failure? What would the likes of Blinken, Nuland and Sullivan do in that case? Resign with their heads down in shame?
Which only means the meat grinder will produce spicier and more exotic sausage meat
It take years and years to build up a competent core of military officers. It is really a very specialized skill. That’s not something that the Western media seems to be willing to acknowledge. Either that or they are so out of touch with reality that they believe their own lies and propaganda.
I suspect that this reality is understood within some segments the Pentagon. Every now and then you can see the retiring General Mark Milley drop a few “truth bombs” then quickly backtrack for political reasons.
The same could be said of mass production of artillery shells and other specialized systems for the military. It requires a strong industrial base with skilled manufacturing workers and a lot of prerequisite industries. Needless to say, a disproportionate percent of these manufacturers are now outsourced thanks to the insane neoliberal economics, many of them in China, where the US hopes to fight after this current proxy battle with Russia.
With any luck, the depletion of the Ukrainian manpower and Western weapons systems will be the end of this terrible conflict.
Fuck officers. You can always find some rich political appointee to pin Stars on. NCO’s. Sergeants. The people that actually fight. It takes a decade to make a good NCO. And then he is still worthless unless he has been blooded. Parade ground officer ass kissers fade when the bullets start flying.
And that is where Russia is. They are rotating troops in and out. They are TRAINING. They are learning the weaknesses of our weapons. They are honing theirs. They are building a Corp of NCO’s and higher rank enlisted men that have killed.
And we build transgender bathrooms, have pride parades, and rename military bases. Cause “racism”.
You know what you want when the shit gets heavy? You want a cornpone Southern cracker from Georgia that grew up with guns. That does his own meat processing when he kills a deer. That has punched someone in the fucking nose in a bar fight. And we are running him out of our military.
Have I mentioned my “We are fucked” theory?
Personnel wise, the military is a shadow of its former self back in the 20th century. The recruiting numbers and quality of this all-volunteer military are abysmal. Anyone who would make a good servicemen knows it and are staying away. Col. Macgregor has mentioned this sad fact on numerous occasions. When the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff pushes ‘wokeism’ in the military you gotta know there is something severely wrong with him.
It is beyond belief that one sees so much written and spoken about the incompetent Russian soldier! It’s pure BS and nonsense. Underestimating and debasing your enemy is a mortal sin……….
” Underestimating and debasing your enemy is a mortal sin……”
It may not be a sin, but it will get you killed…..
It’s both
Exactly and those people see what the military involves now and are not joining any more. They don’t want female drill sargeants and homosexual officers and required weekly sex abuse seminars. Why put up with that when there is no hope of advancement.
Do not forget the decaying value of the dollar and its potential future, which is not looking so pretty as BRICS+ is coming.
Hard to dedicate your life to something (that previous generations saw as a great retirement package) when the future value and even likelihood of its existence is in doubt. Let some other believe in that tooth fairy: Social Security is in doubt, Medicare is in doubt — do you really think military pensions AREN’T in doubt?
Put it all together and you’d be a fool to enlist today.
That’s a good theory
I think there are still plenty of those in the country, and wouldn’t hesitate to step up when the time comes. If the time comes, but as of this moment why would they risk their neck for those in warshington? Devil’s in the detail, plenty can see the actual day to day life in the country and it ain’t pretty. No amount of Russian\Chinese\alien blaming can explain the inner city\state laws and regulations that have been passed by those in power. Look at SF or Portland, hell those “rival”countries are trying to keep that ideology away
In military high school, we learned the 14 qualities of a leader. We learned them in alphabetic order: bearing, courage… (hold on).
Rainbow Milley fails at #2 – courage. He’s too chickenshit to tell the truth.
Adaptability
Communication skills
Courage
Decision-making ability
Empathy
Innovation
Integrity
Leadership strength
Learning and growth mindset
Responsibility
Resilience
Self-confidence
Team orientation
Vision
used to be a well-paid combo.
Just my guess but if such an ‘army’ of Latino Hessians were to materialize and begin suffering an attrition comparable to Ukraine’s own, I think you’ll see a scandal developing stateside that will rival anything we’ve seen to date.
Seeing the kamikaze suicide attacks of armored vehicles over flat open terrain in a column thru mine fields with 1 path no air support or artillery shelling the mine fields was criminal and the people ordering this should be shot. This also shows that US/NATO advisors no longer know about armor tactical movements in battle 😳😵💫
You are wrong. One can clearly see 2 or 3 paths trough minfields, with demining vehicle wreck on the end of each one. 🙂
We must take into account the accursed Neocons. They have never seen a killing they wouldn’t start or escalate.
They are escalating to F-16s with frames adapted to deliver tactical nukes. Add to the above, Lavrov’s statement on how nukes delivered to the Ukraine do not exempt the US Mainland from nuclear retaliation.
So this is the future according to the warmongering, think tankers found in the District of Criminals.
Question: Is China building a military base in Cuba? Wanna bet someone in Congress will ask what is China doing here in our backyard, 7 thousand miles from mainland China?, When you hear it, try not to have a stroke.
When dealing with people deprived of common sense, acting as they do is sometimes the only way left to help the real picture being painted to them – and being taken into account.
If China is indeed doing this thing in Cuba, then they are acting according to an old wisdom – not Chinese only but universal (even biblical) wisdom.
Larry, I have a theory regarding the current Ukraine offense and why it is being fruitlessly waged. It’s all about time. Someone, probably in our State Department, wants Ukraine (us) to drag this thing out as long as possible. If Russia does NOT defeat Ukraine in a reasonably timely matter, by the end of summer Oct. let’s say, then additional time has been bought to enable the WEST (the US) to reinforce militarily from Poland or Romania. Winter will slow down military ops and buy more time for the WEST to recover and reinforce Ukraine. NATO is scrambling right now for munitions, equipment and manpower. The best they can hope for is to avoid complete defeat. I think the Biden administration is just crazy enough to do something drastic to threaten Putin. And that’s the scary part…
Just as an aside, how did we miscalculate so badly? Why is it that our high tech supplied weapons and equipment are really not faring so well? Sadly, the American public is almost completely non compos mentis on this issue. And so much more….
Spent 17 years in the military as a commissioned officer.
Did a spell of duty as a UN peacekeeper where I interacted with militaries from various countries on both sides of the cold war as well as other non-alligned countries.
I now frequently chat with Canadian vets that have actually been deployed to conflict areas.
If I were to blend in two sentences what these conversations imprinted on my conscience it would roughly be the following :
1. Most military officers often have a lot of respect for their colleagues from other countries. Sometimes this respect would exceed the respect they have for their own political leaders. We tend to call a spade a spade.
2. Without junior officers (corporals, sergeants, lieutenants and captains) there is no effective combat force. Period. The people I learned the most from were older sergeants. The have a unique combination of people skills that are indispensable for a well-motivated combat unit.
Militaries in peace-time tend to become top-heavy and politicized at the expense of their effectiveness.
My friend Toby, a Green Beret who survived three tours in Laos during the VietNam war was once asked by someone why he did not stay in the Army. His answer was quick and succinct, “I’m not a garrison soldier”.
If NATO troops enter Ukr, they will essentially act as human shields on the mercy of the Russian army. None of the larger NATO militaries have enough ammo to sustain fighting for more than one to three weeks of intense warfare. NATO will enter Western Ukr and no further. All of this is going to fast track US/UK threatening to use nukes on Russian troops in the Ukr.
A small miracle!
The main news channel in Denmark reports heavy Ukrainian losses (first time ever). It is due to lack of air support, so the new narrative will be. Ukraine would have succeeded in their counter offensive if only we would have given them F16
Meanwhile, CNN is still singing the 4 Russians to every Ukrainian song.
(I don’t tune CNN in, no stomach for it. Heard it second hand.)
If they count Russian speaking people on Ukrainian side as Russians they are right, sadly. As long as Russians of any sort are dying USA is happy, as confirmed by Lindsey.
Meanwhile, we hear, although not very often, about the 700+ American military installations scattered around the world. Some of those must contain hardware that the us won’t give up to be destroyed in ukraine. Is there any info out there about what stocks they’re hoarding?
Asking for a friend
They have been sending their stuff too. Now they are training on M777s without ammo, and maybe without howitzers too.
One graphic I saw showed the US having about 5,000 tanks. And yet the US is demanding the EU vassals with 200-400 tanks part with theirs while the US contributes a handful of the vaunted Abrams.
I would assume the same for US warplanes and AD systems. Why might that be?
Because the US MIC KNOWS their crap weapons will be destroyed within hours, if not minutes, when revealed on the battle line. That will harm future “sales” to the EU dupes who just disarmed themselves in Ukraine and de-industrialized their economies.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I suppose it’s up to Putin whether a stalemate will develop. If he’s serious about deNazification then nope. Only after 10 or 12 oblasts are secured will the fighting quiet down.
The war in Ukraine is now driven by Duma and Russian population and they all want complete victory in Ukraine including the removal of NATO’s presence.
At this point there appears to be no chance for a stalemate – people talk about frozen conflict, about static warfare but all of those at this point are just a West’s dream, as in most cases like this when a major superpower fought non superpower, result was always win or lose, there is no middle ground.
Someone might say – but but – Korea? Well, Korea was total loss for West (they lost more aircraft, and China was ready to attack with 2 million men which would crush all UN forces without any chance for comeback, as they have barely managed to beat back previous attack of 400k) and they only managed to pull “frozen conflict” because US was at a time the only country with enough nukes (RU had few and almost no chance to deliver them), so US have basically nuke blackmailed everyone else into accepting frozen conflict, which they did because they did not want to risk millions of casualties.
This time however, for the sake of UKR, that same blackmail cannot work, especially since nuke advantage is probably the other way around.
Brave IFD forces kill 2 year old terrorist!
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israeli-soldiers-shoot-dead-palestinian-two-year-old/
IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) not what you said. It was just one sentence and you got it wrong.
Which is a proof that he is not part of IDF, because they can do no wrong.
“Then there is the manpower issue. Ukraine does not have an unlimited supply of trained soldiers. Nope. A significant number of its most qualified soldiers, both officers and non-commissioned officers, are dead or suffering from disabling wounds that prevent them from returning to front line units. Even if the NATO countries scrounge up some tanks, artillery or planes, Ukraine does not have an ample number of trained personnel capable of operating those systems.”
This is a logical argument. However, there are no facts to support it. The “Fog of War” and a fully controlled, fully manipulated, fully owned, and fully propagandized MSM has seen to that. We just don’t know what is going on.
As with every red line that has been crossed, and every escalation, almost as soon as the announcement that Western tanks would be going to the Ukraine they were showing up on the battlefield. People were saying it would take months, if not years, to properly train Ukrainians to operate these vehicles. But — Poof! — there they were. I’m thinking that the training of these Ukrainian tank crews took place months, if not years earlier.
Pundits keep going on about how the Russians are running out of missiles, and tanks, and men, and how the Russian economy is in ruins. The same things are being said about the Ukrainians. The same thing is being said about the West, about how the United States is running short on everything.
To say how “Ukraine does not have an ample number of trained personnel capable of operating those systems” is reckless. The United States and the West may have been training Ukrainians in the operation of F-16s since 2014 for all we don’t know. The United States and the West have been training Ukrainians in the operation of tactical nukes since 2014 for all we don’t know.
Please recall about how the Department of Homeland Security placed orders for 9mm hollow point ammo in amounts totaling 6.5-billion rounds. Same thing with the IRS.
I was particularly mystified by the same orders for ammo placed by US Custom and Immigrations. With the United States’ borders wide open, who is US Customs and Immigration expecting to shoot at — Americans objecting to an invasion of illegal aliens?
Besides just mystifying the general American public, maybe the orders justified reopening old ammunition manufacturing facilities, and the building of new ones. Maybe this ammunition is destined for other countries, for other wars.
And this is just one example.
Where was all that military gear recently photographed sitting in the Polish port of Gydnia destined for — the Polish or Ukrainian or other European NATO front?
And what about all those videos appearing on YouTube showing the transport of hundreds of Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and other military gear on railroad flatbed railcars?
From my perspective, as an average American, we don’t know a thing. We don’t even know what we don’t know.
“From my perspective, as an average American, we don’t know a thing. We don’t even know what we don’t know.”
However you appear to know that you don’t know a thing, which is making progress on the journey of transcendence since certainty is the greatest weakness.
Temper your statement, your pearl of wisdom with the fact that I was paraphrasing Donald Rumsfeld. “There are unknown unknowns.” What a smug, condescending patronizing jerk he was. Thank God, he’s dead.
“Temper your statement” if you are serious.
It is always unwise to “analyse” your opponent emotionally since doing so short circuits thought and opportunities.
Mr. Rumsfeld was quite intelligent but not so devious as he believed himself to be given his “provenance”, whilst being rendered by some a useful fool, which required some understanding of Mr. Rumsfeld to facilitate.
“There are unknowns” but Mr. Rumsfeld was possibly attempting to communicate with a specific audience who are prone to such repetition as New York, New York in emulation of “rote learning” techniques – condescension being “The American Way” as was/is BLAME -YE, BLAME-HE, BLAME-SHE, but do not BLAME-ME, of which you appear to have created a new precedent in writings: blame-e says 13 June 2023 at 10:55 refers.
“This is a logical argument. However, there are no facts to support it. The “Fog of War” and a fully controlled, fully manipulated, fully owned, and fully propagandized MSM has seen to that. We just don’t know what is going on.”
It’s not like there is a gazillion of videos of forced mobilization.
P.S. Many people here are neither average nor Americans.
” Many people here are neither average nor Americans.”
Of course, but not limited to the efforts facilitated by the hopes of “elites'” that conformance continues to be the “norm”, which given that change is a constant “norms” are not achieveable, but aggregations are a pre-requisite if notions of exceptionalism are to deemed to be truths that aggregations could plausibly hold to be self-evident not dependent on conflations of “nation states” with “cultures”, a practice illustrated by the blame-e says 13 June 2023 at 06:37 “as an average American”, and by some others primarily reliant on “statistical methods”.
” … who is US Customs and Immigration expecting to shoot at — Americans objecting to an invasion of illegal aliens?”
That is exactly who management hopes to shoot. All of these National Guard operations at the border are theatre for gullible normies. The NG is the welcoming committee. Establishment Texas Republicans are some of the worst corporatist trash clowns in the US. This definitely includes Gov. Abbott. Their only problem with the illegal immigration is one of quality. They don’t want 70-80 iq rejects who can’t be usefully harvested for profit over the long term. (This is the animus behind Florida Gov. DeSantis’ backers as well.)
However, none of the Texas establish GOP (eGOP) care about the future farther out than the time necessary for them to feather their own nests. If their nests are being feathered with out-of-state money in order to look the other way or actively cooperate in the invasion, they will do so in a New York second. The globalists who own the money printer for $$$$ have far more than mere greed as objectives, so I take it as true until proven otherwise (a ‘working assumption’) that the TX eGOP is being paid not to contest the invasion.
“… I was attending a week long training course in order to be certified as a Firearms Instructor who is authorized to train other instructors.”
Are people holding that course trained and certified to give a week long training course in order to be certified as a Firearms Instructor who is authorized to train other instructors?
In other news, Russian soldier with callsign “Coal” is just perfect for a Netflix movie about this war, after name change of course.
https://t.me/SrbijaRusija/25586
Media keep telling how united the ukrainians support Selenksys policy.
I wonder how many ukrainian men managed to leave the country.
German governement stated in november that 160.000 are registred in Germany.
I know some personally , I can understand that they don´t go back.
Concerning weapons. Melnyk claims for much german tanks.
So losses must be really serious.
Ukraine had a population in the 40 million range before the SMO, now reliable estimates put that at nearly, which consists largely of the too old, too young to be press-ganged to be cannon fodder.
Russia has taken in millions of refugees from the eastern oblasts.
150,000 to 200,000 dead on the battlefield, an unknown number of Russia speaking Ukraine citizens outright murdered or disappeared… the rest from western Ukriane have run for their lives, often leaving in their luxury cars with their pockets stuffed with cash to bribe the border guards.
Harari’s WEF de-population agenda on steroids.
Nuland et.al are no longer taking their orders from the White House or Pentagon. Yup, that would be treason in a “normal” world.
OOPS… should have said “nearly half that”
Russia and Putin have no choice but to see their goals thru to the end. De-militarize, de-nazify and make what is left of Ukraine into a rump neutral state. Take Odessa and Transnistria and cut off Ukraine access to the sea. If necessary, leave the far west of Ukraine with the remaining nazis for Poland and Romania to deal with. (if there are any left when the war finally ends.)
Hopefully this will also spell the end of NATO and the EU. Both of which deserve to die. This would be in the best interests of the people of the west.
Russia simply has no other choice as the west, US, NATO, the EU cannot be trusted with any agreement. They have no honesty, no integrity. All are proven liars.
On a brighter note, when you join the Victoria Nuland Fan Club you will receive, free of charge, a beautiful bikini pinup photo of Victoria, suitable for framing to hang on your bedroom wall.
22 USA forces injured in Syria / Helicopter involved / 10 evacuated
This according to vague government statement, published last night by Twitter of U.S. Central Command / @CENTCOM; says this occurred June 11 2023
at:
https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1668449340472410113
Also, reported this morning as follows:
Press Release | June 13, 2023
U.S. Service Members Injured in Helicopter Mishap
USCENTCOM
June 12, 2023
Release Number 20230612-01
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TAMPA, Fla. – June 11th, a helicopter mishap in northeastern Syria resulted in injuries of various degrees to 22 U.S. service members. The service members are receiving treatment for their injuries and 10 have been evacuated to higher care facilities outside of the CENTCOM AOR. The cause of the incident is under investigation, although no enemy fire was reported.
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https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/3425868/us-service-members-injured-in-helicopter-mishap/
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My impression is that, like in the Bakhmut bear trap where the Russians just so happened to always leave a road or two open for more Ukies to enter the meat grinder, that’s the Russian approach to this whole SMO.
Let’s face it, the Russians could have destroyed Ukraine in two weeks if Russia didn’t care about civilians. But that would also have left a lot of Nazis and their sympathizers, and even “western-facing” Ukie men, still breathing… and who wants to continue a never-ending fight against a still-rebellious population ?
So I believe Russia is deploying a similar “bear trap” all along the front line in Eastern Ukraine, where, yes, the Russians progress forward, but very slowly on purpose. The strategy (IMO), “let the Ukies who would be killed come to Russians (along with their western weapons), instead of the Russians chasing them all over the place”.
Yes, the Russians have to keep an eye on Western weapons coming into the western part of Ukraine, and have to keep the lights off here or there to trip the Ukies up. And also need to defend their own territory a bit better.
But since Russia has the intelligence assets on the inside to keep any massive devastating Ukie action at bay, they seem content to continue the SMO meat grinder all along the front line.
Of course, beyond the front line to the west, it could also be seen as another black hole where western weapons, and perhaps soon, NATO troops, enter the “western Ukraine meat grinder”. But that’s a topic for another day.
US planning to send DU munitions to Zelensky with Abrams tanks. Guess they missed the #dirtybomb memo.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-set-approve-depleted-uranium-munitions-ukraine
Pentagon announces another $2.1 Billion for Ukraine, White House set to approve DU munitions for Ukraine. Doubling down. What happens first?
1. Ukraine surrenders.
2. U.S. is hit with Russian (or its allies) missiles.
Here’s a different angle on Operation Ukraine v.1 that I’d like to throw out for discussion.
As far as “the West’s” purported original goals of defeating Russia, or regime-changing Russia go, the microscopic percentage of the US population that actually constitutes “the US” now fully realizes that those goals are now impossible to achieve, regardless of what the people that make up the microscopic percentage say in front of TV cameras. (If there is one thing that all of these people do very, very well, it is lie in front of TV cameras. They do it so well that very few can believe that these liars know that what they are saying is in fact a lie. Most listeners instead believe that these people are “deluded” and that they actually believe what they are saying.)
However, the liars’ new, top-secret goal of completely destroying everything valuable — from resources to infrastructure to population — in, on or under the geographical area of the planet labeled “Ukraine” (which was not that long ago a rather advanced part of the USSR) is proceeding very well, so far. The liars have just got to keep the destruction going (former brothers fighting each other to the death) until there is nothing left of the former historical Ukraine worth destroying. The dams and power plants are definitely on the list. (Is it safe to eat depleted-uranium-contaminated agricultural products?)
“The West’s” hope now is that Russia’s victory “prize” will be an ungovernable, destroyed “Ukraine” that has a Kremlin-imposed government, which will be operating from Kiev’s rubble — a government that will never be recognized as legitimate by “the West”, one which “the US” and its ass-licking vassal states will continue to attack via terrorists, while the “legitimate”, “internationally recognized” government of Ukraine resides in, fully funded by and issuing orders from, London, Miami or DC — which are places in “the West” that, so far, anyway, the microscopic percentage of the Russian population that constitutes “Russia” has chosen NOT to attack.
It’ll be a win-win situation for both sides. Russia will have its denazified and demilitarized Ukraine and “the West” will still have the legitimate government of Ukraine, in waiting, still issuing orders for mercenaries to commit terrorist acts in “Ukraine”. The beauty of this Final Outcome is that it could go on literally forever, which is exactly what the US war-based economy needs to survive.
The only possible fly in the ointment is that “Zelensky” and his entourage might possibly be starting to realize “the West’s” increasingly obvious goal of Operation Ukraine v.2 (again, Ukraine’s complete destruction). The longer v.2 goes on, the more obvious the end-game will come into focus. For example, rather than unconditionally surrender to, or negotiate an unfavorable peace settlement with, Russia, will Zelensky & Co. be inhuman enough to follow the USA’s orders to prevent the populations of Kiev and Odessa from evacuating those cities and, after training them all how to pull a trigger, no matter what their ages, literally force them to attack the approaching Russian military forces, hoping that such a strategy will force “Russia” into indecisive final action? Zelensky & Co. are certainly going to surrender long before that nightmare, right?
Last autumn I heard these same claims:
1) “Winter is coming”
2) “Europe is down on its knees”
However Europe went through winter without serious problems. Energy prices have gone down. Russia forced to sell gas and oil much below global market prices. It’s easy to see how war is giving incredible boost to renewables and cutting legs and arms of fossile energy. It’s much cheaper to produce electricity by renewables than by fossiles.
Russia is loosing energy war.
Russian economy is in tatters. European one is blooming. EU is without serious problems. Industry is expanding. Inflation is negative. Prices are going down. It’s much cheaper to produce electricity by renewables than by fossiles, but no one was doing it because they don’t like profit. Next winter whole Northern Europe is going to heat itself using solar energy, giving boosters vacc, and cutting legs and arms of anyone that objects. It’s easy to see how the Earth is flat.
Why do you have a picture of an intelligent person representing you?
Thanks for skipping past the new opening.
June 12,Monday around, 18.00, on
the highway, from the biggest national airport, lot of mc-policeguys, stopping all cars from entering the highway from connecting roads. 2 buses with policeescort, and bluelights and after 2 buses, so 4 buses with people, during policeescort, and all side roads blocked. But why,whom were they? Very unusual transport, so many people from, maybe 1 aircraft? No one was to be seen in there, so secret and fast escort policecars. The cars stopped, caused a long painful que, to the city, unusual to see, it was’nt a president motorcade with some limousins. My guesswork: Maybe Ukrainian crews, arriving for training in secrecy, a new batch, but we don’t know. Strange mission – hard to interpret.
Re. “Some Americans hope that the war will be dragged out”
You say this probably will not turn out but if it did drag out (for a couple of years), wouldn’t the Russians actually benefit?
In 12 months time:
*The Ukrainian prospects for building up both trained people and equipment and attaining enough supples of ammunition will have improved only slightly. Politically wouldn’t Zelensky be either gone or on his knees?
*The Europeans will be also on their knees economically and dealing with a new energy crunch-probably leading to political crisis.
* Russians, on the other hand will have strong economy, their recruits/mobilized troops more adequately trained and plenty of supplies
* The US administration will be facing an election with a war they are certainly not winning
What’s not to like about those projects for the Russians? at least into the next US administration.
on all previous evidence and based on the fact that the collective west will “do what it takes to ensure a ukrainian victory”, the chances of this conflict resulting in a fully-fledged nuclear exchange between NATO and a russia-china alliance are so large as to be, at this point, an almost assured outcome.
I love your column but Jdg Nap is one of them and would sell us out for a “mess of pottage.”