Do you remember the report that circulated more than three weeks ago about a Russian bunker buster that hit a military base in Western Ukraine and reportedly killed or wounded upwards of 200 NATO officers? That was a garbage report. How do I know? In the aftermath of the blast there was no uptick in U.S. military or NATO aircraft flying from Germany or Poland to Ukraine to pick up bodies or casualties. There was no intel chatter.
Now we have a report, confirmed by Vladimir Putin himself, that Russia hit the headquarters of Ukraine’s military intelligence (GRU) in Kiev on Saturday, May 27. Initial reports that day talked about an earthquake in Kiev. In the succeeding days we learned that access to the GRU Headquarters was shutdown and pictures emerged showing that portions of the eight story building with black scorch marks. Russia claims it hit a bunker with a hypersonic missile that burrowed deep into the earth and destroyed the bunker. Simplicius has a good run down (as usual) on the other signs that Russia launched a successful strike. For example, RYBAR reported that, “a C-21A aircraft of the 86th Air Medical Evacuation Squadron of the US Air Force flew to Rzeszow in an emergency from Ramstein Air Base, presumably to evacuate seriously wounded NATO servicemen.” If true, that corroborates that something significant (and terrible for those in the GRU bunker) happened in Ukraine.
There have been no leaks from the Western side of the ledger confirming the Russian reports. That could mean that nothing happened and that this is just a Russian psy-op. Alternatively it could mean that something did happen and the NATO side is trying to keep a lid on. If the other reports of military medical airlift are true then that would support the view that NATO does not want to admit that Russia scored a big hit.
If you are wondering if Russia is slackening in its bombing/missile campaign targeting Ukrainian military positions throughout western Ukraine, the answer is no. This tells me that Russia is taking the loose talk about a Ukrainian offensive seriously and are taking pro-active measures to pre-empt or weaken the attack when it comes.
Telegram has several sites claiming a 140th star was added to the CIA wall marking dead agents. No idea if this is true or engraver it has any relationship to Ukranazistan.
If the aircraft involved was a C-21a, then the number evacuated has to be very small since that plane is really a Learjet converted to military use. On the other hand, could it be that the jet was bringing specialists to Rzeszow to bring specialists there to treat the wounded? That would seem to make more sense. Perhaps, though, just a few NATO big shots were wounded during the strike and needed to be out of Ukraine pronto so as not to be seen.
Doubtful the Russian military would waste munitions on a non-operable, defunct bunker. The possibility exists that same bunker was quietly set up as a fall-back position where the operations from the Ministry in Kiev that was just bombed could have moved if things got too “hot” in Kiev. Russian intel seems to have a pretty good idea what the junta is up to, and the Russians don’t often waste effort.
Or perhaps bombing the “empty’ bunker may have been to calibrate damage against a known type of Soviet-era installation, to gauge just what was required. Then the effectiveness of the Kiev Ministry bombing makes sense. Remember the American drone bunker in Saudi Arabia got a similar surprise.
The first Ukie bunker was possibly an experiment, and probably also a warning to the US/ZATO “management” crowd to get out of Ukraine with their lives while they can. The second was to show them unequivocally they couldn’t even hide in a bunker under a high-rise building. The Russians showed they can hit targets in the middle of a city, with minimal damage around it. I bet Zelenski spends even less time in Ukraine, let alone Kiev, even though Putin has clearly stated that Russia will not individually target Zelenski for assassination.
Zelenski has more to fear from his own Ukie-nazi “staff” and the US/UK Black Ops than Russia.
So let’s review:
-can Russian armaments avoid or disable virtually all US/ZATO Air Defence? Check.
-can Russian armaments damage/destroy any bunkers the Ukies may try to hide in? Check.
So exactly where can the US/ZATO/Ukie-Nazi “decision makers” and their massive communications infrastructure hide in Ukraine? Not in Kiev or ex-Soviet bunkers…
And as for all this “ceasefire” nonsense, Russia will cease front-moving hostilities when the Kiev junta unconditionally surrenders. Or when Russian troops reach the Polish and Romanian borders.
Putin tolerated 8 years of Nazi attacks on Donetsk and Lugansk (over 14,000 dead civilians), and Minsk 1&2, and even the Istanbul talks… no more BS delay tactics, the Russian military will do most of the “talking” from here on out. China understands this, but is putting up a serious effort for talks, ensuring the US/ZATO/NeoCons can’t later claim Russia wouldn’t negotiate…
The sooner Zelenski stops listening to the gone-rogue Nuland NeoCon Cabal, moron Stoltenberg and the idiot Brits, the sooner this meat grinder stops.
A side note on Stoltenberg’s replacement… first it was going to be Freeland, then von de Lying, the latest is some relative nobody from Spain… I guess leading NATO is no longer considered as career-enhancing position. Whodathunkit…
The Rothschild Class must be beyond panic, all their usual “lets watch you and him fight” levers are not working, and their economic/financial terrorism is mostly affecting the US/UK/EU, the foundation of Rothschild soft power.
The Great Reset is not going to happen, at least not like Schwab and Co. envisioned.
Larry, that was a good show, I enjoyed it.
All I have to say is that I think United States already made the decision to escalate into an open conflict and that this will happen in the next 4-6 weeks. At this point it would be a huge embarrassment for Biden to back off and would virtually guarantee presidential elections would be lost, not to mention there is a hell of a lot of people who have gone “all in” on the all out Russia hatred and propagating the narrative (to the point of staking their careers over it). In other words, the US/UK/EU politicians, regime figures and media figures have made too many hate filled statements, said too many lies and committed too many hostile acts in front of the whole world to now simply go away quietly. The humiliation and the backlash and loss of respect for the United States and the collective west would be far too damaging for any western led institution to survive or be trusted again for a very long time – every Tom, Dick and Harry would decide to test the western resolve in all sorts of situations. In other words, it would be the equivalent of a huge bank run on everything western.
The Russians have tried to take it slow, offer multiple off-ramps and to treat United States and the West with way more reservation and respect than it probably deserves. However, I think at some point in the last 3-6 months they realized that the Biden regime made their decisions and this is why the Russians have 100s of thousands of mobilized sitting at the 404 border, who are not doing anything – RFA is waiting for the next move on the part of NATO. In this light Col MacGregor is right – Prigozhin’s calls for an all out multi-million army mobilization are de facto the official stance of the Russian leadership, only coming through a “bellicose” party like Prigozhin because the information space if being prepared for official announcements to come. I predict that United States and UK, followed by Poland, Germany and France are going to try something stupid and very likely they will come to regret it, simply because at some point the virtual world of information has to meet the real world of actual warfare.
One ace the Russians have up their sleeve is China. So far the Chinese have refrained from everything but my guess is that one of the deals Putin and Xi made in their mutual (unofficial) defense pact was that push come to shove, China will open a second front. Why? Because if NATO does in fact decide to do something stupid, it is very obvious that if they dare to it to Russia, they will not have any qualms about doing it to China as well. In this scenario NATO will end up falling apart, by the way, because there is no way a country like Turkey or Hungary will take on Russia. In fact, they may easily end up being trojan horses…
An interesting comment from Oddo about China opening a second front. China doesn’t want to but could take Taiwan if the Americans pushed too much. As Putin’s “SMO’ is not a “war” in the way we are taught to understand war in the West so too would a Chinese takeover of Taiwan need not be a classical American style “assault”, a sort of D Day thing. Putin’s genius is in demonstrating how much you can do strategically without full military commitment. In any case, time is on the side of Putin and also on the side of the Chinese.
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-genius-of-vladimir-putin
“… a classical American style “assault”, a sort of D Day thing.”
What does “a classical American style assault” mean? Is Dieppe Raid a classical American style assault too?
Eventual Chinese SMO would probably be focused on naval blockade. They had a test run when Pelosi visited. They marked some areas of the sea around the island, said “no one sails here”, and fired some rockets. No one sailed there.
Mr. Julian Macfarlane thank you for your articles. I wish I could write that good. It takes me an hour to write few lines, and at the end they still end up wrong :]. That however doesn’t impair my reading and comprehension, or global views. I’ve linked your article to my channel, ( https://t.me/fred33flint/718 ) because it’s easy for me to find the articles I like, from the hundreds of articles I read, daily.
I also, believe that Russia was not prepared in 2014 for a full confrontation with NATO. They simply weren’t strong enough. However, they learn and act incredibly fast. In top of that they have Zero tolerance for their own mistakes.
My issue is NOT this war in Ukraine, but what will happen when Russia will have a 1,000,000+ trained and hardened by fire soldiers?
on all evidence thus far, the military conflict in ukraine will escalate into a direct confrontation between russia and NATO. why? because the collective west has no reverse gear and will, on its own explicit admittance, do “everything it takes” to ensure a ukrainian “final victory”.
look out for the collective west opening a second front from transnistria to cut russia off from attacking odessa once the long-promised ukrainian offensive has begun…and duly falters.
Yep, at this point they have to save face no matter what. They miscalculated massively owing to institutionalized ignorance and now have to keep reinforcing the facade of invincibility even as they can’t govern at home nor seal the southern border. The planners of this war are basically well connected dunces and should not be in any decision making positions great or small.
And no matter how things end up, the plotters and instigators of this vile war will never take responsibility nor will they ever be held accountable. They will scavenge the ashes for loot then move on to the next target population, and will again abuse American military power to demolish another society while our own society crumbles thanks to the rot among our parasitic leaders.
Well said!!!
Ukraine fails to mount the famous counter-offensive but will the US start WWIII in Ukraine? When do soldiers arrive in Europe? And the hardpower? For God’s sake. All you hear in the West after the fall of Bakhmut are diversionary ploys to cover up the fall of Bakhmut and the collapse of the AFU and Ukraine with less than half the population of 2014! At the same time, the West in the backstage has already started to push for negotiations. Only they’re so stupid they just say shit. Like Ukraine get into NATO?! LMAO! Which Ukraine? Which NATO? With Zelensky on the run from Kiev?
The only explanation for the way the US leadership is acting is explained by the content of Alan Sabrosky recent article:
https://www.unz.com/article/weaponizing-anti-semitism-from-victim-to-predator/#comment-5988116
Looking at matters knowing who the real boss is behind the US governance allows one to comprehend fully the way things are evolving.
That is very informative article indeed
“… my guess is that one of the deals Putin and Xi made in their mutual (unofficial) defense pact was that push come to shove, China will open a second front.”
China could respond to direct US/NATO aggression against Russia a little differently — simply announce an embargo against the aggressor nations until they back down and start negotiating. That would play very well in the rest of the world and does not involve the risk of direct military action by the Chinese — but the embargo would bring the US & EU (especially the de-industrialized US) to its knees very quickly.
Just imagine the panic in the US when the ships transporting the goods that fill the shelves of Walmart, Harbor Freight, pharmacies, and many other stores turn around and head back to China. Imagine the immediate looting & rioting in Democrat-run cities. Imagine the US military realization about how many Chinese parts are directly & indirectly in the weapons they need to attack Russia. The domestic pressure on the Biden* MalAdministration to start negotiating would be intense. And China would emerge as the global Big Winner.
I agree. China holds all the cards. It would be better to prevent the train from leaving the escalation station if China played that embargo hand sooner rather than later
The question isn’t what the a**holes are doing, it’s what we can do to change the direction.
The a**holes are clinching, and you can’t do much about it.
Great interview Larry.
Question: I have little doubt Russia has known the location of the GUR Bunker perhaps since the start of the official war. WHY, have the Russians waited so long?
A gentleman’s agreement/etiquette?
Concern over escalation?
I would have thought it would be the first place the Russians would have hit. Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on why now?
russians don’t think and act like americans.. it really confuses americans…
Sadly it seems that an increasing number of the Americans in power don’t think at all. This, in fact, seems to be the reality across the entire West. The discipline of digging into an issue, finding out what you have missed, assessing the pros and cons, deducing logical conclusions, weighting probabilistic outcomes and then debating that so that you test and refine your thoughts is hard work. AFAICT this has been largely replaced with emotion and “group think”, which is rather more about the feelings of the collective, than anything to do with rational thought.
Exactly! They are repeatedly gauging Russians using US measures, and getting wrong readings.
I guess the better question perhaps is this…..Why after dancing around multiple redlines of the Russians did NATO/GUR still feel comfortable in a place that they had to know was now on the menu?
–Arrogance maybe?
–Didn’t think Russia could penetrate the bunker?
I can understand Russia honoring etiquette. My side has ZERO honor in neither foreign or domestic policy. I would think any intel site in Ukraine is probably fair game now especially after the attack on the Kremlin and with the looming threat of NATO exercises and a summer offensive.
I’m sure Larry will give you his thoughts, but mine are that this particular GUR unit must have been responsible for both or either the Moscow drone attack and/or Belgorond terrorist attacks. Either way, they were probably the unit they tracked back intelligence/coordination of the attack(s). Yes, an escalation, because the Ukraine boundaries have been breached. More of these units will be hit . Anyways, I believe this unit was definitely responsible for cross border intel.& coordinance for strikes.
I have no idea about the reasons for this but here’s a theory. At the start of the SMO, the GUR dispersed its staff from the building anticipating a strike. Russians knew this and bided their time. With no strike arriving over many months GUR went back to the office and eventually when the time was right for the Russians, they were hit.
Russia has not declared war on anyone. The biggest problem with the Western population is that they only listen to Western leaders. If you listened more to the other side, like Russia or China’s peace plan, you would better understand what is happening in Ukraine, according to both sides of the conflict.
The whole Russian military operation in Ukraine is a reaction to the West and not a premeditated action against the West! According to what China itself defends, Russia entered Ukraine within international law to force Kiev to negotiate or, if we prefer, to comply with the Minsk agreements, signed by Germany and France (2014 and 2015) and later ratified by the Security Council of United Nations. However, Guterres has already said that the UN is practically dead, obsolete and does not have the strength to implement any resolution.
And wen the negotiations failed with the great contribution of the UK and the US, Russia “freed” the Russian-speaking population most affected by the Euromaidan – the US coup d’état in Ukraine. And even by the numbers of the Russian mobilization in December – just to defend a front with more than a thousand kms – Russia immediately began to de-escalate the conflict according to the UN Resolution of March 2022. The exception was Bakhmut to destroy Ukraine’s military power due to the weapons pipeline from the West. Because the hardware with which Ukraine started the conflict was practically destroyed in the first phase of the SMO. I never heard Russia talk about annexing more territory from Ukraine. And if happens is also a consequence of the West continuing to escalate the conflict.
All wars have several reasons and it is impossible for an outside observer to understand them all. To date, IMO the only US victory in the conflict has been to reinforce its power in Europe. Namely with the destruction of gas pipelines and the European economy. Even the reason for Germany’s vassal role today is not entirely clear to me. But it can only come from US threats! Since Europe depends much less on the US than, for example, on China. On the other hand, the loss of US power around the globe continues to grow every day. But Paul Krugman has already said that after all, the US never gained from the “tremendous privilege” of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. And we all know why Krugman won the Nobel. Or were we all wrong.
The US never thought that Ukraine could beat Russia in an armed conflict. At the limit, they thought that the conflict in Ukraine could help to destabilize Russia. And the most valid reason I see today for the US to continue supplying arms to a totally defeated Ukraine, other than the arms business of course, is to oblige Russia to show off all its new weapons! What the US fears most of all! But Russia has a lot of patience. With time on its side, as a result of the economic crisis in the West. And until today the only new weapons it used in Ukraine were the NATO command interference systems (which it had already shown before the conflict in Ukraine, on the Black Sea in 2014). And Mr. Kinzhal! Which also must have been the main reason why the US deployed the Patriots in Ukraine. And liars that they are, soon advertised that Ukraine shot down a Khinzal. When in fact it was the wreckage of the Patriot battery that stopped the Kinzhal. And the unfortunates in the bunkers. Confirmed dead, first in Lvov in March 2022 and now in May. As Larry explains in the post.
Hi Paulo…I already know and agree with 100% of what you said. However thank you for explaining it again.
I rephrased my question to why after all the Western instigation, Intel for this, tanks for that, weapons, now F16’s would Ukraine/NATO Intel agents think for a moment they would be safe in that bunker? It may be impossible to answer but the question is solid lol. I stand by it. It’s very mysterious to me. After all they’ve done to Russia it has to to take some real sack to sit there smugly in that bunker. Something I doubt any of them would be willing to do unless they were reasonably assured of their safety.
—Did they think it impenetrable?
—Did they think the location to be unknown?
—Were they simply so arrogant they didn’t think Russia would dare?
Idk like I said seems strange to me. But I could be missing something too. Again this may be a question that cannot be answered. It’s unfortunate because I suspect the answer would reveal much.
Welcome Lucas. I think these more personal attacks on decision-making centers as Putin called it, are almost always retaliatory attacks. A response, in this case to any attack that Russian intelligence knows was perpetrated by Ukrainian military intelligence. Or at least at your headquarters. Like Belgorod or the drones over Moscow. I think Budanov has taken on more of a role in war since Zaluzhny’s disappearance.
Budanov got too high on his own supply, and they had to slap him into reality.
Great interview- thank you!
The new JCS Chairman airforce GEN Brown will make GEN Milley look anti woke. My guess GEN Brown will give our Supreme Leader his excellency PRES Biden advice on how to win Ukraine war with airpower. 🤢😵💫
Why do Americans always follow the same script whether for Biden or against ? They are so unsophisticated as to be German in their clumsiness
China knows Taiwan has elections in January 2024 and will see if the U.S. female puppet remains in place.
Taiwan is about business and whether it has access to Chinese markets
It must compete with South Korea for that access
Europe is not where Taiwan faces economic competition
Without access to Chinese markets production in Taiwan will collapse
Jewba the Hut is a psychotic b*tch straight out of Misery.
Just heard Trump ‘explain’ how he’d end the war in 24 hrs. Here’s the gist:
1) Tell Zelensky he’d get nothing if he doesn’t negotiate.
2) Tell Putin Zelensky would get everything if he doesn’t negotiate.
24 hrs is nonsense but you know, there’s some common sense to it. At least he wants to end this war and not escalate it. That’s a start.
Zelensky, sure – he’d fold in a minute but Putin, I doubt it. What’s ‘everything’ beyond what they’ve already supplied and Russia can’t counter? Besides, it’s been ready to negotiate all along. I doubt his bluster would work with the Russians. Of course, the Brits would say ‘We’ll keep Zelensky in the game by ourselves, Trump can take a hike’. Nobody outblusters a Brit. Not even Trump.
Anyway, by the time Trump could be in office, the geography won’t look anything like it does now. So his showboat’s moot. Plays well to his audience though – and that was the whole point, wasn’t it? At least he FINALLY understands (I hope) how friggin’ dangerous Biden and the warmongering bipartisan neocons are.
Actually, he could end OUR INVOLVEMENT in it in 24 hours. The mess that the globalist rats-on2legs have made will take generations to clean up. The best thing we could do to contribute to that process is get the hell out and leave people alone.
We don’t need Russia’s agreement to stop the war, because they are the side that has been on the strategic defensive since 2014. The war is ‘us’ attacking them, not them attacking ‘us’. The entire Ukrainian effort at this point is facilitated and paid for by the Globalist American Empire. Pull out our people and cut off the money spigot. Tell the Nazis that they are on their own, and that they had better sit down with the Russians and hope that the Russians will cut them a deal. Most of their leadership cadres will be sunning on the beach in Miami and Tel Aviv within the week.
The only uncertainty is just how much foot-dragging resistance there will be from the deep state. Their respect for constitutional authority and the chain of command has not grown over the last 6 years. You can be sure that enormous stacks of black money has been siphoned out our un-auditable government and is now off the formal books waiting to be spent maintaining terrorist operations against Russia and any patriotic elements within Western countries seeking to normalize peaceful relations with Russia based on mutual respect and reciprocity. They hate the Russians, and they hate us, more than they love their own children.
“2) Tell Putin Zelensky would get everything if he doesn’t negotiate.”
Is this for real? It sounds like a joke to me. Does everything include Zelensky’s apartment in Crimea, that was recently nationalised? How exactly would Zelensky get it? By launching a real-estate counter-offensive?
That would be a non option for Putin at this point. The little green runt would probably take the package as long as it would include a mansion and swollen bank accounts somewhere far away from the nation he pawned and demolished. Putin not so much. He has to accept the depraved realty that Washingtonians hate Russia and all who reside within her borders, and seethe in envy of all the incalculable natural Russian resources beyond their grasp and which can only be controlled and seized through bloodshed.
Let all Russians beware.
This has been the plan since Tzar Alexander was murdered by Bolsheviks for the same reasons, and they will never relinquish their covetous obsessions with Russia’s vast and fabled riches.
In the end, our Bolshevik leaders are just ignorant street thieves, and while we are stuck with them these world wide attacks, conflicts, false flags, etc., will continue. It’s the only way they know how to get rich.
Perhaps it’s now time to introduce a new Ukrainian Government in exile led by a wise person and supports from Russia and allies. There are millions of Ukrainians living in Russia, Belarus… and million others very unsatisfied very angry true Ukrainians ( not dollar-backed Neonazi hooligans) inside the country that welcome the new government. All that followed by the formation of a Ukrainian Liberation Army with ample military supplies from Russia pushing for a nation-wide partisan-style war of liberation into the streets of Kiev and other major cities until the NATO puppet Zelisnki regime is toppled.
Government in exile is more of a “US puppet thing”. Zelensky is already preparing for it, by being anywhere else but in Kiev.
Perhaps it’s now time to introduce a new Ukrainian Government in exile led by a wise person and supports from Russia and allies. There are millions of Ukrainians living in Russia, Belarus… and million others very unsatisfied very angry true Ukrainians ( not dollar-backed Neonazi hooligans) inside the country that welcome the new government. All that followed by the formation of a Ukrainian Liberation Army with ample military supplies from Russia pushing for a nation-wide partisan-style war of liberation into the streets of Kiev and other major cities until the NATO puppet Zelinski regime is toppled.
If anyone will be setting up a new government in whatever remains of the Ukraine, it’ll be Russia.
Last week, there was this hit in Chmelnitzky. In german mainstream media, nearly nothing about it.
to me, this is a sign that it must have created serious damage.
The fireball was huge.
https://eng.obozrevatel.com/section-war/news-occupiers-struck-khmelnitsky-region-fires-broke-out-details-29-05-2023.html
Larry, very good talk, I watched it last night at Napolitano’s. It seems that last night the Russians definitively finished off the Patriots and the anti-aircraft defenses in Kiev. The Ukrainians report how many drones and cruise missiles the Russians sent, but not how many the Ukrainians shot down.
During this time, the Western empire puts the lies into high gear so that there is no talk of blaming the Patriots. These are this morning’s headlines: “Chaos in Russia, shelled villages, Ukrainian drones attack a fuel depot”, “Russia lost at least 60,000 soldiers during the battle for Bakhmut”.
It is noticeable that in the foreground are Ukrainian “successes”, that is, desperate drone strikes on Russian civilian targets, whereby the Russians shoot down almost all drones. Perhaps we should be optimistic and see this as preparation for peace negotiations. Because the West will not allow defeat, so it will create a virtual imaginary victory through the media.
Rybar Sitrep Telegram Channel Reports….
https://t.me/sitreports/9612
NATO Countries have exhausted their Ammunition Reserves⚡️
👆According to Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg:
💬 So far, the Allies have run out of supplies. To be able to support #Ukraine is an unstable path, so we need to increase production in order to fulfill these new and more ambitious goals,” the secretary said.
One of the reasons for non-offensive is because in order to advance, supplies are needed not only here and now, you need a clear understanding of the guaranteed number of supplies for the next 2 months.
📜 Military Correspondent Lisitsyn (https://t.me/evgeniy_lisitsyn/2876); 2 Jun 2023, 11:50
t.me/sitreports /@evgeniy_lisitsyn/#new/
NATO is out of ammo????
INDY
This “Ukraine Defense Support Group” (Kyiv, Ukraine), Lt. Col. Erik Kramer is trying to polish a turd.
«Ukraine has fought mostly a defensive war and will be transitioning to the offense. The ratio of troops in the offense versus the defense can be 3 to 1 (6 to 1 in urban combat). Add in high-intensity urban operations, and that ratio goes up. Ukraine has yet to conduct major offensive operations in a large city or to perform a major river crossing. »
https://warontherocks.com/2023/06/what-the-ukrainian-armed-forces-need-to-do-to-win/
It seems at least part of the 101st Airborne were seen with KFOR helping repressing the locals Serbs rightful demand of representation in Kosovo. As usual fighting for “freedom and democracy” :p.
In Banderistan, the Russians begin to understand they won’t have a solution by destroying the 404’s armies one after the others. Some have to suppress the ones pushing all those poor guys under the Russian shells. They started to chop some heads. It won’t revive the dead but if it can saves the lives of the remaining , it might not be such a bad thing. Killing the whole country and sparing Hellensky won’t give them the security guaranties they were (too) politely demanding for years now. It won’t help Brandon’s reelection either, so, one way or another, the guy’s days as head of state are numbered. Having a military competent man instead of Hellensky won’t change much seeing the current 404’s situation.
“This tells me that Russia is taking the loose talk about a Ukrainian offensive seriously and are taking pro-active measures to pre-empt or weaken the attack when it comes.”
I don’t think that talk, loose or not, has much to do with Russian combat activity. They get intel directly from the ground, and know what’s going on better than we could ever do. Besides, engaging targets of opportunity is what one does in war. If the enemy accumulates large ammounts of ordnance in one spot, you hit it if you can. All of the pre-offensive activites have created a target rich environment.
USAF now has remote-controlled and autonomous (robot) F16 prototypes at least in the lab, if not further:
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-simulated-us-air-force-test
Would imagine these would get shaken out in a wargame soon.
Also includes hilarious piece on problems of giving AI autonomy and points for killing targets. Sometimes human-in-loop supervisor told AI it was not allowed to kill the target. AI computed it would have more pleasure and be able to kill more targets if it fragged its supervisor. “Did not see that one coming.”
This kind of thing happens ALL THE TIME with AI experiments, esp. when you hook them up to the real world.
Update: Commanding officer walks back report on fragging during war-game, says “it was only a thought experiment”.
Robot and remote planes are real. “Coming to a theater near you, soon.”
Coming to a theater near you, by crashing onto it. If you prefer home cinema, it will bomb your house. You will feel like you are in Afghanistan.
AI has become just another nonsensical buzzword, just like “computer” was in ’70s and ’80s, and “Internet” was until a decade ago. Before switching to “climate change” meme, Al Gore was all about “information superhighway”.
Will a regime change in US make the stupidity go away? NO!
This is hilarious. Max Blumenthal At TrumanCon panel on diversity, equity, inclusion featuring Pentagon officials and some Lockheed Martin execs.
“Max Blumenthal, The Gray Zone, my pronouns are Trump/Russia…” Asked them if any non-binary US Navy divers blew up Nord Stream pipeline. 🤣🤣🤣
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1664637348401893377?s=20
I wouldn’t be surprised if the upcoming NATO *air exercises* are not exercises.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they turn out to be bunch of hot air exercises.
Question: If it was a known HQ or operations center of the GRU, why would they actually put operations and key people there?
Everyone knows it would be a major target, everyone knows Russian missiles are getting through air-defenses.
Hard to believe precious NATO people wouldn’t demand to spread out in secret bunkers throughout Ukraine, not in key government buildings.
They probably believed the hype of the mighty patriot systems.
Had the same question Charles did. He phrased it better. I’m curious as why Ukraine/NATO would think for a moment they would be safe in there?
Your answer is about the best I have heard thus far. You would think the hit on the Patriot System a couple weeks ago would have given them pause tho.
Where else would they go? They can’t all move to Poland, or go on a World tour with Zelensky. They also can’t build a “secret bunker” without Russians knowing, because Ukraine is full of Russians. I’ve read a theory that Russians were not hitting them because they had agents inside. Anyone being late for work that day, was probably tortured to death for being Russian spy, in the name of democratic values.
I love the title of this article:
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in Ukraine”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dont-ask-dont-tell-in-ukraine/
I have read reports in Telegram on that an UK NATO big fish fell there, hence those statements by “The Cleverly” on the acceptability of the terrorist strikes by Zelensky Ukraine into peaceful Russian neighborhoods…
Also on that there is a new star in that hall in Langely, completing 140…last account was 139….
Of course, this will be never publicized by NATo of any of the implied governments…
Is it just me or is Victoria Nuland looking more and more like Satan?
And with a cow.
20 megatons of hate condensed in a single human body, truly satanic
You give her too much credit. In reality, she’s just a nasty simpleton advising another nasty simpleton.
She is indeed Madeleine Albright 2.0.
She is so swollen in her own venom that her back teeth are floating.
I didn’t know that Simplicius is available in the Bitchute, with many videos, so not only his blogg,
among: the Patriot going down on a bridge in Kiev, what Western media, claims was a Russian missile.
But maybe you other folks knew this already.
He was posting links to that channel while writing for Saker, under the name Nightvision. That’s how people figured out it was the same guy initially.
Do you see any correlation in the modi operandi of the Ukranian leadership and the way Israel attacked Syria and even Irak during the Syrian war? Wouldn’t that point to the real power structure in the West?
At some point Zelensky or Arestovich talked about turning Ukraine into Israel-like state (the video was spread around last year). Arestovich went there recently and held some public talk, and parents of Zelensky have citizenship and live there. I’m sure there could be no correlation whatsoever. /s
Larry what do you have to say about the head of the Wagner group who is saying Russia is losing and Putin is failing and losing the war? I would really like to know what your perspective is on this subject because he helped the Russians a lot and now he’s saying the Russian military is trying to kill them with mines and anti tank mines etc. It’s all on video. Why would he say such a thing?
Prigozhin is nothing more than a shiny object to distract the media and public opinion. It is important to remember that the Wagner Group is a creation of Russian Military Intelligence and as such is under their control and direction. Prigozhin has no power in that organizaiton.