The next time you hear a retired U.S. General who commanded U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan belittle and dismiss the Russian military as incompetents, remind yourself of two uncomfortable facts — Afghanistan and Ukraine are almost the same size in terms of land mass and the U.S. failed to defeat a bunch of Afghani goat herders who had no air power or artillery. The United States and NATO poured billions of dollars into Afghanistan and failed to vanquish the Taliban, who easily took control of Kabul in August 2021. These clueless generals remind me of Kevin Kline’s character in the film, A Fish Called Wanda:
In Ukraine, Russia continues to advance from the east and the south, chewing up Ukrainian brigades and steadily advancing against stiff fortifications, despite fighting a de facto NATO force that is flooding Ukrainian forces with NATO munitions, artillery and armored vehicles. Moon of Alabama provides an excellent summary of NATO performing hara kiri, er I mean, “its disarmament mission.”
France to send an extra 12 powerful Caesar howitzers to Ukraine
French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s announcement that France will send 12 additional Caesar howitzers to Kyiv is “clearly important for the Ukrainians, particularly the Caesar artillery system”, said FRANCE 24 Chief Foreign Editor Robert Parsons.
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“They’ve been very successful in Ukraine, so the Ukrainians will be delighted, I am sure, to get another 12. I think that brings that total to over 40 now, closing on 50 Caesars in Ukraine.
France has only 77 Caesar howitzer left. Others though are worse off.
Estonia Sending All Its 155-mm Howitzers to Ukraine
Estonia will donate all its 155-millimeter howitzers to Ukraine as part of its most extensive military assistance yet.
The package, previously reported to be worth 113 million euros ($122 million), is expected to boost Kyiv’s defense capabilities amid continuing Russian aggression.
Estonia currently operates 24 NATO standard FH-70 towed howitzers.
Apart from the howitzers, Tallinn will send thousands of 155-mm artillery shells and hundreds of Karl-Gustaf anti-tank grenade launchers.
The frantic effort to supply Ukraine with NATO weapons while cleaning out European stores sure sounds like a I Love Lucy sketch, but there is nothing funny about this. Many of the European NATO members are busy helping Russia achieve its objective of demilitarizing Ukraine (and, serendipitously, NATO itself).
This is good news for Russia. Although on paper (in terms of gross numbers of military personnel) NATO outnumbers Russia, its actual ability to deploy ground troops is quite limited. (Note — the numbers on the following graph represent ground, naval and air force personnel.)
Turkey, for example, represents the second largest military force in NATO but in light of its warming relations with Russia is unlikely to provide any troops to fight Putin’s forces. The numbers for France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom are very misleading. Sky News reported this on Monday:
A senior US general has privately told Defence Secretary Ben Wallace the British Army is no longer regarded as a top-level fighting force, defence sources have revealed.
They said this decline in war-fighting capability – following decades of cuts to save money – needed to be reversed faster than planned in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“Bottom line… it’s an entire service unable to protect the UK and our allies for a decade,” one of the defence sources said.
https://news.sky.com/story/us-general-warns-british-army-no-longer-top-level-fighting-force-defence-sources-reveal-12798365
This leaves NATO with few good options. If NATO decides to mobilize ground forces and send them to Poland and Romania, Russia is not likely to sit back and wait for them to strike. A NATO mobilization would likely be viewed in Moscow as an existential threat and Russia has the conventional weapons to deal with that threat.
War fighting is a messy, complicated, resource intensive activity. The conflict in Ukraine is exposing NATO as an impotent anachronism. If Russia prevails in Ukraine the raison d’etre for NATO will be in question.
If NATO were to deploy troops and more military equipment, Russia could resort to cyber attacks on the countries’ infrastructure, shutting down their ecomomies. The hardships it would inflict on its citizens could cause an outcry against the war effort. JMHO
Well, though they might, why? US/EU/UK/CA economies are already imploding, inflation is soaring, the people’s support is draining, while only attacking the Ukraine and those in it, while the Ukraine’s forces continue to commit Hari-kari under Russian artillery and drones. I would advise against creating any Pearl Harbor for the West.
Who cares about the publics support? As for the economy, so what? They lie! America is in recession as per the metrics for defining a recession, yet Biden claims the economy is doing fine. Lies, lies and more lies! This war will continue until someone is thoroughly defeated or both parties are too punchdrunk to continue.
We must stick to facts and not fantasies, the US is NOT in a recession no matter what definition one chooses. We had two-quarters of negative GDP which ended 6 months ago but that is only part of the definition of a recession. With the insane $5T of govt stimulus money sloshing around the GDP recorded some contraction when this money flow slowed down and the dollar weakened after it greatly strengthened during Covid. However, businesses did not enter a recession and employment stayed high. The US economy has waned over the year and may enter a recession but it currently is not in one.
The metrics of economic performance have been thoroughly corrupted by the current regime and their sycophants at the Fed. The US economy is in serious decline and is, in fact, in recession in many parts of the country. BLS data is totally misleading the public with rosy pronouncements of unemployment nirvana – all of it is built on lies and deception to keep the music playing while our country rots from within.
Where do you live in Washington DC? Visit a city in the rest of the country, look at the homeless, look at the looting, look at the crime, look at the layoffs. This is not a well country and you are not operating in reality, to paraphrase “Quigley downunder”.
Oh good grief!! Not in a recession! Well, my monthly gas bill for heating has doubled. Electric has doubled, food is double at a minimal. Automobile gas is nearly 4 USD in my State. Yes, we are in a recession and worse. The financial bubbles from years of zero interest are about to burst.
Been grocery shopping lately, or does someone else pay for your lunches…taxpayer maybe?
Not in a Recession? Economic Statistics are so badly massaged to get answers that Politicians need, that none of them means what they used to mean.
How about U.S. GDP ? 89% Government and Services, yet this is an economy where those that encouraged the sell out of American industries and jobs, want to jump start war production?
And 12% of the fiction of U.S. GDP is “Home Owners Imputed Rent”. Asking a homeowner what it would cost to rent his home, is at best absurd, but worse, the “imputed rent” contributes ZERO to goods and services in the U.S. economy.
23 Trillion dollars of skimming and churning is not a good basis for a War economy.
That’s only based on GDP and assumes the CPI/GNE deflators are accurate. If, as Shadowstats points out actual inflation is 12-15%, the US is in a serious contraction. They kept changing inflation measures over the last few decades that affected a reduction in measured inflation. Good for capping COLA’s on government payouts and justifying low interest rates, but not realistic in terms of what people see as inflation. Most Americans suveyed say the US is in recession from their perspective, and that they are feeling inflation worse than the headline number. The GDP measure is after inflation adjustment, and 3% growth at 7% inflation is zero at 10%, and minus at 12-15% inflation.
Smoke and mirrors as are the labor statistics – the Commerce Dept. numbers are way higher than the employment surveys. The last time we saw that? Obama’s re-election campaign. Same pattern, fudge the numbers to get headlines that look better when reality is worse. Now they are making the adjustments to labor numbers that will show a big contraction in jobs.
How do you avoid inflation? Just don’t count what’s going up. Like magic it gives GDP growth. It isn’t actually happening, but what the heck?
of course it is in a recession, and inflation is at least 18%, with tons of unemployment , specially tech jobs, to continue layoffs, no matter how they like to change their numbers and definitions. And the worse is yet to come with the dedollarization of the global economy…
The US economy runs on deficit spending that I’d unsustainable. It doesn’t matter what definitions mean, the reality is the country is in major economic trouble. If you don’t believe it why is Ray Dalio saying it constantly?
you must be eating a lot of goyslop and watching the lame stream media and living in a strange bubble – but this recession is the worst i’ve ever seen it and i’ve seen a few already including the tail end of the carter recession.
the inflation is truly ball busting – with food well over double at this point, the good stuff (prime meat, organics, etc) triple.
you need to check out shadowstats and learn that the false metrics of these liar media companies and liar traitor government / deep state just make up numbers at this point
This is exactly the psychology that the West uses against any of its third world enemies – attack the civilian population so that they will rise up against their leadership. Well, the only problem with that is that it has never once worked. In fact, in most cases it just serves to untire the people even more.
It was the weird Class War in WW2.
British plans to burn the Black Forest were nixed because it was private property
Lindemann (German) advised Churchill to bomb Working Class areas of German cities so they would stage a Marxist Uprising and overthrow the regime
No-one bothered to bomb Middle Class areas to hit the regime supporters
Then again Hitler had his Baedeker Blitz – destroy British heritage sights – Coventry Cathedral (13th Century treasure) and other cultural centres. – and of course East End of London
He refused to bomb Oxford and St Paul’s though.
Coventry is no beauty.
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/greatest-cities-lost-during-wwii-maximum-5-images-per-post-pre-war-images-only.1583354/page-2
Well, according to CNN’s latest creative writing department release, Ukrainians are fighting to free the Russians from their oppressive dictatorship that they’re all scared to death of.
Got to hand it to those humanitarian Ukrainians. They willingly sacrifice themselves to keep all of Europe and the World free AND they fight to free the Russians themselves. Don’t they deserve at least a dozen Nobel Prizes?
Hate to break it to you, but the cyber-attacks have been going on for a while. Food processing plants in the United States have been decimated. Millions of tons of hamburger and chicken has been cooked before it reached grocery store shelves. Explosions everywhere. Hormel has escaped unscathed but they are owned by China. Elsewhere, pipelines have been messed with. Power has been re-routed. Simple computer glitches. Except for the knuckleheads who can’t code taking pot shots at routing stations. [sarcasm]
hate to break to you but incompetence and human error and low quality of employee caused all these incidents.. this is sign of a decaying civilization that have not enough educated people in their food industry.
but sure , blame russia blame china blame iran blame north korea..
You’re an idiot. Tell me where I said Russia did it. Educate yourself.
When you say, “hate to break it to you but, but THE cyberattacks…” [emphasis added] in a reply to someone’s post about Russia’s possible retaliatory cyber attacks, and you are not explicitly introducing another source for these attacks, then the reference for ‘the cyberattacks’ naturally goes to Russia (and bluntalanlucu is no idiot to assume that). Perhaps you are being ambiguous in order to insult someone who doesn’t see your (still) hidden reference. Or are you blaming China? Are they the knuckleheads who can’t code? The ambiguities are there, and while I’m no Rhodes Scholar, I have read a book or two. Check yourself.
I beg to differ. I have numerous bookmarks showing a different story… Here’s a couple:
https://thinkamericana.com/heres-96-examples-that-the-food-shortages-are-being-created-not-predicted/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/fire-breaks-saginaw-county-grain-elevator-fire-burn-another-week-latest-fire-food-processing-plant/
Especially check out this article & at the bottom is an interactive map for the world (but the majority is in the US), if you want to go straight to the map, I will include its link but it can take a bit to load.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/interactive-map-details-destruction-numerous-us-food-manufacturing-plants-compares-us-incidents-global-trends/
https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=4410859&x=-89.849631&y=44.059004&z=14
By the way, if you read this one, it sure seems to have been intentional….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/tucker-carlson-examines-strange-destruction-food-processing-plants-across-country-video/
I bet the edible bug processing plants are humming right along, no fires or explosions there.
The US and EU are doing more damage to themselves by following WEF orders. Food and energy production is being curtailed way more effectively than the Russians could ever hope to.
The US is spending themselves into a hole so deep they’ll never climb out. The EU is even worse off. The UK? Ha. They admit they have no means to defend themselves and haven’t for a long time, no one cares about the UK enough to bother invading. The Fish & Chips is horrid now, and the pubs all look like they are serving pre-packaged bangers & mash, so who gives a crap about the UK?
The Russians don’t have to do a thing right now but watch and laugh.
The US will go broke trying to provide materials for Russian target practice. Soon the EBTs will fail, then the fun begins.
Just had to share this CNN report from this morn. that had me in stitches half way though. It’s a great exercise in creative writing. ‘Zombies’, no less.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/europe/ukraine-soldiers-fighting-wagner-intl-cmd/index.html
“And when did you realize, you are just meat?” Andriy asks him.. (and when did you ask yourself, Andriy?)
Andriy says he had told the captured engineer: “Obviously, you know that you will be killed (in battle). But you’re afraid to fight for your freedom in your country.” Are you sure about the (in battle)addition CNN?
“He said, ‘Yes, this is true. We’re afraid of Putin.’”
The tragicomedy of MSM’s creative writing staff continues.
WEF plants will not suffer Russia encroaching on their turf: it’s the WEF’s job to shut down Western economies.
There are enough foreigners in Western countries that can be incited to create unrest. Make the West deal with their self inflicted diversity folly.
The west will already shut down their economies with CBDC’s, while Russia maintains transactional freedom. In a few years, when cash is gone, they can turn your money off or confiscate it just for posting here.
I think Russia is going slow in Ukraine because they don’t want to cause shock & awe in the world. Russia’s economy is fine, they have all of the natural resources. They are trying to deplete NATO’s weapons/ ammunition.
I am beginning to think more and more that the Russians know they are being provoked and refuse to take the bait and fire the first shot at NATO, like FDR hoped would happen with Japan and Pearl Harbour in WW-2.
The Russians will fight on their own terms and are happy to let the nth iteration of the zombie Ukrainian army keep coming at them and be blown to pieces along with NATO hardware, the petrodollar, and US global hegemony. That’s how it is looking to me.
Nor do I think the Chinese will take the Taiwan bait. Time is on their side. Everything the US is doing will amount to huffing and puffing to blow nothing down. The days of the Big Bad Wolf are numbered.
The current Russian grinding strategy is working. While they may need to eventually pick up the pace what they are doing is getting the job done. Keep the grind going and at the same time continue to implement a new financial system which does not use the dollar. Time appears to be on Russia’s and not the west’s side.
I believe the key to understanding Russia’s commander in chief is judo. Remember, V. V. Putin’s whole identity was crucially shaped by judo, which changed his life at a young age. He eventually reached the highest level in judo, is an actual Judo Master. In his 20s, he won the all-city championship in his native city of Leningrad, making him one of thr top judo athletes in the Soviet Union.
Over the years, he has said more than once: “Judo is more than a sport; it is a way of life.”
Think a little about the philosophy of judo, and think about how a judo master’s brain works. One of the key concepts in judo is: You can defeat even an opponent who is stronger than you by using his strengths against him.
Think about how a judo master might fight a war.
Good point. This has been achieved with regard to the Sanctions especially.
His brother died in Siege of Leningrad
Maybe Moscow KNOWS that Germany did NOT declare war in June 1941 BEFORE……. Over the course of the operation, over 3.8 million personnel of the Axis powers—the largest invasion force in the history of warfare—invaded the western Soviet Union along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with 600,000 motor vehicles and over 600,000 horses for non-combat operations.
Last time USA declared war was 1942 against Hungary and Romania………
Build up of forces in Poland looks like a History Channel re-enactment in real time
It’s weird. Ukraine’s face is actually hitting Russia’s fist.
I completely agree with you. Time is on their side. And, luckily for us, both Russia and China are run by mature adults who refuse to take the bait. Hopefully this latest neocon disaster will eventually result in us becoming again the country that we are supposed to be.
Historically, Empires never scale back excesses they just get worse until crash/implode and I doubt USA will be first to defy this. Prepare.
With a 31 trillion dollar debt there is no room to scale back that excessive debt…the only move left is to completely collapse.
Our US predicament constantly reminds me anymore of “The Mouse that Roared”, only with the roles radically reversed. If our “leaders” had any sense at all, they would emulate the Duchy of Fenwick in that film: sue for peace and petition for Russian foreign aid!
(God knows, we’ll need it.)
Col. Macgregor had quite a lot to say about this situation in what I consider one of his best videos, if not THE best!
“If you live in the proximity of the war, IT MATTERS” which is lost on the Diabolic War Mongers for PROFIT!
Ukraine is being demolished by massive Russian offensives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQqWLmjU8M
I wonder if the satanic empire of lies would resort to biochemical warfare, wait, they already did. https://twitter.com/WarClandestine
“Biological”warfare.
Ummm. I think that was what the whole COVID-19 thing was. A manufactured bioweapon, that got out, turned on us. The end.
Covis-19 was not the Bio-Weapon. – it was simply the pretext to get mRNA widespread in field tests on humans
As a result:
1] Congress recently changed law to skip animal testing of new drugs
2] FDA approval process hollowed out completely
3] 2018 Pentagon wanted exemption from FDA trials to inject soldiers for “national security”
4] FDA (Official now on Pfizer Board) cut deal to relax regulation
5] Pentagon – DARPA – Eco-Health- Ralph Baric – ModeRNA – all part of program using patents held by NIH to produce “gene modifiers” which Congress thoughtfully re-christened “Vaccines”
6] Impose mandates on Children to circumvent liability issues
7] Trump used Federal funds to pay for R&D and filling factories
8] UK Government funded Astra-Zeneca and others
9] BioNtech in Mainz knocked out formula in 2 hours using patents from NIH and nano-lipid technology from the Hungarian – and was funded by German Government, Strunkman Brothers, Gates – and was insolvent pre-Cominarty
Covid-19 most certainly was a bioweapon. I don’t think you know what a bioweapon is.
1. It was made in a lab.
2. The virus contains both DNA with RNA. This can only be done in a BSL-4 Laboratory. BSL-4 labs handle the most dangerous viruses.
3. There are only three countries where COVID-19 could have originated — the United States, Canada, and China. It was in Canada where Chinese scientists were arrested trying to smuggle samples of the virus back to China.
3. An HIV strain (responsible for AIDS), was added to the SARs virus. That can only be done in a laboratory.
4. “The thing” got loose. It turned on us. Millions have died. Because it was made in a lab nobody knows what is going to ultimately happen. Then there are the spike proteins in these vacines killing pilots and professional football players. “Yeah! Go Team.” Hence the part where it turned on us. Hence, game over.
Ron Unz argues that covid-19 was made by USAMRIID, probably at the Ft. Detrick biowarfare labs in MD. Then they were supposed planted in Wuhan by US military during the 2019 International Military Games that were being held there.
PS. Unz thinks that the swine flu and chicken flu outbreaks in China the previous two years were also biological attacks by the US on China.
My personal opinion is that all three outbreaks were simply the usual outcomes of the paddy ecosystem, which routinely mixes and matches and mutate viruses from humans and wide variety of animals.
t was in Canada where Chinese scientists were arrested trying to smuggle samples of the virus back to China
What “virus” ???
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-scientist-sent-deadly-viruses-to-wuhan-lab-months-before-rcmp-asked-to-investigate-1.5609582
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/china-coronavirus-online-chatter-conspiracy-1.5442376
2. The virus contains both DNA with RNA. This can only be done in a BSL-4 Laboratory. BSL-4 labs handle the most dangerous viruses.
How can “Virus” which has never been isolated – the genome used was generated by computer and may/may not be factually based.
How can it combine RNA and DNA ????
They are DIFFERENT kinds of “virus” with RNA being less stable……….
As for splicing – so-called Furin Cleavage – that is done with CRISPR and that technology was developed “in 2012 Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Martin Jínek, Krzysztof Chyliński, Ines Fonfara and Michael Hauer published their finding that CRISPR-Cas9 could be programmed with RNA to edit genomic DNA,”
It was “patented by Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and nine others were awarded US patent number 8,697,359”
You make it sound as if a Lab in Wuhan had a “leak” yet such “leaks” are commonplace – at Ft Derrick, Marburg, Pirbright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents
Look how many times USA has had Laboratory “Escapes” – and how little media concern there was
The people who spent most time suppressing Lab Leak claims were FAUCI, DROSTEN, COLLINS, FARRAR
hello paul if yu have time ; yu might find the following links interesting about this subject; many of these are historical . i know regard all vaccines since the beginning as WMD`s in one way or another .
All the links that say seed or player are downloadable- right click and save
i hope Mr. Johnson will allow this to be posted. We all have the right to informed consent what to put into our bodies; which i believe has not at all been forthcoming from the medical establishment which i believe is know all about profit and not our overall health. The media will not tell us the truth either as allot of news shows are sponsered by pfizer.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/10/19/montage_pfizer_sponsors_news_abc_cbs_nbc_cnn.html#!
«i read this article when it came out in october 2020 and saw the document he referenced. it has changed since then. the article below begs the question; if they had not isolated the virus in july,2020; then what did they really base the test on and more importantly the vacs which came out only 6 months later in dec, 2020.
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/10/08/the-smoking-gun-where-is-the-coronavirus-the-cdc-says-it-isnt-available/
As if this were not enough of a revelation to shock the world, the CDC goes on to say they are presenting a diagnostic PCR test to detect the virus-that-hasn’t-been-isolated…and the test is looking for RNA which is PRESUMED to come from the virus that hasn’t been proved to exist.
the document he refers to is on page 40 of the latest version dated Effective: 07/21/2021
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
exerpt of page 40
Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV were available for CDC use at the time the test was developed and this study conducted, assays designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were tested with characterized stocks of in vitro transcribed full length RNA (
this will be quite a controversial video below . the latin definition of a virus meant the word poison . This definition has know been changed
Fear Porn Pimps of “Virus’es”(Steve Kirsch, Peter A. McCullough, Robert W. Malone, Del Bigtree)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PFFPIcy6kp77/
https://seed163.bitchute.com/QuAQBQIrBC7l/PFFPIcy6kp77.mp4
this lady makes a pretty good case that polio was actually caused by ddt poisoning
Toxicology vs Virology – Rockefeller Institute and the Criminal Polio Fraud
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/Toxicology-vs-Virology-Rockefeller-Institute-and-the-Criminal-Polio-Fraud:1
https://player.odycdn.com/api/v4/streams/free/Toxicology-vs-Virology-Rockefeller-Institute-and-the-Criminal-Polio-Fraud/100b59e0d251359ae0086d0656574979992efaab/a98f7f
The people that died during the Spanish Flu of 1918 were vaccinated – Sound familiar?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bKZ0EC0M7eXa/
https://seed306.bitchute.com/NYZMjDr6JOG3/bKZ0EC0M7eXa.mp4
In britian; if yu refused to give your child the smallpox jab; yu went to jail. this explains why many did not want to do that.
Dr Suzanne Humphries: Smallpox Illusions
https://www.bitchute.com/video/O75DWZElraDE/
https://seed128.bitchute.com/z2NPZI4v4VDN/O75DWZElraDE.mp4
this was allot of predictive programming that went into this beginning 50 yrs ago to shape our minds into accepting the realities predicted below. he has a really good series going on how these old movies were about us accepting the dystopian future we live in today. my fav is below.
https://www.bitchute.com/channel/hybM74uIHJKg/
The Omega Man and The 1970s Dystopian Sci-Fi Film Trend
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pSZ36oBdIPY/
https://seedxvj21.bitchute.com/hybM74uIHJKg/pSZ36oBdIPY.mp4
Mr. Johnson- thank yu for posting my comment to Paul
just to let yu know Gonzalo listed you as one of the sources to check on a daily basis among others- think its the first 3rd of the video; so hopefully yu will get more web traffic.
2023.02.02 The Alt Media Outlets — A Primer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmVdRVI3EvI
this one is interesting also about the medicine as Gonzalo calls it. mr adams the guy who did the dilbert comics said the anti-medicine crowd are right .
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/01/22/youre-the-winners-cartoonist-scott-adams-declares-anti-vaxxers-were-right-all-along-1326748/
2023.02.02 Answering Scott Adams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xbiMUaxDdo
The ONLY question for now remains — would the “NATO” (read US) accept an unfavorable outcome such as a defeat in 404? I mean really — no first nuclear strike and all???
I do not have a clear answer after experiencing so much of blurring by propaganda (Joseph G is indeed turning in his grave) that the real possible response is in a fog of war for me…
Hey, keep up your great work,
Cheers, JaKo
“The ONLY question for now remains — would the “NATO” (read US) accept an unfavorable outcome such as a defeat in 404? I mean really — no first nuclear strike and all???”
Well, the US skulked out of Afghanistan in the middle of the night, covering their retreat by declaring victory. So, it’s like a toss-up. If there is no place to retreat to, after Ukraine goes tits-up, then the US could very well go full retard, overturn the table, and nuke the crap out of everyone.
The way things stand today, the US is just that stupid and just that insane.
I have always wondered if Israel snuck in a tactical nuke under the cover of a conventional weapon. Don’t get me wrong. I love Gal Gadot and Bar Refaeli. The fully (and I mean fully) integrated Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is a sight to behold.
Still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t77cF9sCaFk
seem like israeli propaganda ruined your mind with this ‘israel is powerful’ nonsense
2006 showed that israel is nothing more than cowardly force too scared to fight and take casualties. The mutiny of their elite golani brigade showed how the IDF of the 1960-70s are gone..
too bad many still believe in this ‘israel is so superior they can do anything’ myth
Larry, some military commanders seem to be waking up to the disaster unfolding in Ukraine, but sadly I don’t see the message getting through to these western leaders, which is a huge concern.
Scipio- contact your MP or Congressman, don’t wait someone will do it for you. If enough of us present our outrage – maybe something will dawn on them!
Meanwhile – look, there are some normal people even in Germany – finally! There are English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWD9MFZuuso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLOEmP-PM64
“If enough of us present our outrage – maybe something will dawn on them!”
Yeah, like cart the malcontents off to some re-education camp somewhere.
When somebody is self-destructing, like this government is (and like the entire western world seems to be), the last thing you do is get in the way.
Lay low. Keep quiet. It will all be over soon.
I travel often on M4 to Cardiff from London. Every time I stop in one of the rest areas, I see a long queue in front of Burger King, I go elsewhere as the queue is far too long. They are British soldiers with coupons or not sure what, fed at Burger King. They are either too tall, too short, too skinny or too fat, is that a coincidence? Some guys are normal size of course. How can you fight eating BK burgers? It is always raising eyebrows.
In the US, the military abide by the old Burger King slogan “Have it your way.”
While the rest of us are left to ask: “Where’s the beef?”
Same in france. The soldiers in charge of ‘Sentinelle Operation’ which consists in shuffling their rangers in the streets against any terrorist attack (sic) are composed of 30% of short women and the guys are definitely not in great shape either. At one point i couldn’t resist telling one of those guy that his automatic riffle Famas was taller than him.
I really wish they would wake up faster…
Twenty years ago I watched an interview on TV of Bill Moyers interviewing Chris Hedges on his new book “War is a Force that gives Us Meaning”. I was so impressed I went & got a copy of it, & it was a very educational, heart-wrenching, & disturbing read, but have found myself many many times since then glad that I did. This fiasco in Ukraine is the latest example, as well as the fervor from the koolaid drinkers reminds me of the demonization Hedges describes in his book, and it also reminds me of the “Mass Formation Psychosis” referred to in association with covid.
From the book’s Wiki page:
“War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a 2002 non-fiction book by journalist Chris Hedges. In the book, Hedges draws on classical literature and his experiences as a war correspondent to argue that war seduces entire societies, creating fictions that the public believes and relies on to continue to support conflicts. He also describes how those who experience war may find it exhilarating and addictive. The book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, as well as a national bestseller…”
Linda, some of our aging UK brethren on here may have had fathers who grew up in England during the 1920s. When they went to school, their teachers (who in those days were all men, they called them ‘masters’) would have been survivors of the Western Front during the Great War (which we now call World War 1).
To a man, every one of those survivors was a pacifist.
Mercifully perhaps, none of those old soldiers are with us today to see the lie they were told, that they were fighting ‘The War to End All Wars’, exposed as the malicious fiction that it was.
“Money makes the world go round”
And . . . during wartime you can make a LOT of money. And that’s only one reason why.
And there are new generations who know it all, and better. They need makeing their own experiences. Unfortunately!
And there are the loonatics. Those don’t die out either.
And so the story goes on and on . . .
For a change just read. Last book “Revelation”. Even the history of mankind ends with what . . . a war. The last war. The real war that ends all wars. Because then Jesus Christ comes back and make an end of it. And judgement starts. Oh dear, then I realy wouldn’t want to be found on the wrong side of justice!
I agree completely. It sure seems like every war that these psychopaths start with such pleasure & giddiness, using lies & betrayals, with greed, control, & destruction as their apparent goal. Never for the betterment of the peoples.
Glad to see Putin & Russia defending themselves against the global bully & hope it gets a good smackdown, rightfully earned & wayyyy overdue.
I just downloaded a free copy of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
here, its a russian website that has millions of free books.
http://library.lol/main/7ABBCF661695C996B74836A5D4D6A2F3
Awesome, thanks! I’ll bookmark it, I love books… and have a LOT of them, covering various topics.
Hope you enjoy it, I know it’s not comedy or other light reading, but I did enjoy reading it since I learned a lot from it. In fact a few months later I met a vet (with PTSD & Survivor’s guilt) that had spent a year in Afghanistan. Had it not been for that book, I could have seen him differently, not sure how, but I know I had a whole lot more compassion for vets after reading the book. In fact I even told him about it, & he said “Cool”.
Just curious what is their home page?
When it comes to the U.K. the crazy thing is that we spend as much as Russia. That point rarely gets made by the media though. The money is simply spent very badly. For example, two pocket sized aircraft carriers that do not seem to work well. Useless versus any real threat to the U.K. but great for pretending we are still an imperial power.
2 Carriers where built for the RNs naval lead in EUFOR’ joint naval forces, tasked with projecting EU power internationally, but Brexit put a temporary block on that while pro EU UK politicians tried to turn Brexit around. The most amusing thing about this debacle is they are unreliable, expensive, carry a stealth strike force that Russian AA systems can detect and as a bankrupt country the UK has very little power to project, funnily enough neither has the EU.
There were numerous layers of subcontractors taking their cut from the work done on those carriers, sufficient to take all of the juice out of the work, so the work that was done was rushed and careless and even then it barely paid a decent wage.
Actually you spend a lot less. The Russian economy is likely 40% of the American economy, and its military spending is likely on that order, too. If you strip out finances and services, the Russian “real” economy is fully 68% of the American “real” economy. It is 5 time bigger than the German “real” economy, and it dwarfs the British economy.
Please read this:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1549554660184231936.html
Most of UK budget goes on SALARIES and PENSIONS……..funnily enough British soldiers get paid more than Russians and more than Americans……….
It appears lots of US Service families dependent on Food Stamps and Food Banks because US spends all its money on Defence Contractors
Russian Defence Industries are STATE owned as USED (Pre-Thatcher) was case in UK
It is oddly like a mission on NATO’s part to demilitarize itself. On top of that, they’ll demonstrate inferior equipment and personnel in addition to second-rate leadership. Not a good look, and they’re too stupid to walk away, yet afraid to commit as they have the nagging feeling they’ll lose in a straight-up fight.
If and when the tanks get there, they’ll be destroyed, a bad look that I suspect is understood as the timeline for delivery seems to be after it’s over. F-16’s would enable Russia to demonstrate superior air defence, so unlikely they’ll get there either.
Russia quietly leapt ahead in armaments and NATO must know it. I recall years ago in Syria when Russia went after ISIS comments from the US military were along the lines of “we had no idea they had that stuff, we don’t have anything like it.”
A question, Larry, on the tanks and F-16 side of things – how many missiles, hyper-sonic or otherwise, can Russia make for the price of an Abrams or an F-16? I suspect a lot. They didn’t destroy all the Ukrainian tanks with Russian tanks. They’ll use missiles and bombs against tanks. And they have the most effective anti-aircraft systems. Total numbers of personnel are meaningless when aggregated targets is all they are.
“… comments from the US military were along the lines of “we had no idea they had that stuff, we don’t have anything like it.”
That was the reaction when the Kalibrs crossed Iran at 50m altitude and landed in an ISIS camp in N. Syria from corvettes in the Caspian Sea. It was all “Why don’t we just blow the Russians outta there?” until that happened.
Maybe more important from a war fighting perspective was an USAF commander on TV saying (from memory): “The Russians have brought in (list of aircraft and support staff). I can get 25-30 sorties per day out of that. We’ll see (smirk) what the Russians do.” In the event, the Russians got 60-70 sorties per day out of that, and they did it day after day after day.
A month or two later I heard a USAF talking head say: “Yeah, but that’s their A Team, let’s see what their B Team does when it rotates in.” In the event, the B Team kept going at the same pace. And so did the C Team.
Robustness is its own force multiplier, so when you see that Russia has “X” fighter jets and the USA has “2X” it doesn’t follow that the US has twice as much air power. We’re not even gonna mention the F-22 and F-35 hangar queens.
One wonders what the DIA, CIA and the other 17 intelligence agencies spend their time doing.
You know things can’t be going well for any nation at war that’s begging for a few 50 year-old designed jets like the F-16. (Yeah, I know they’ve been “upgraded” in the never-ending quest for bigger profits at General Dynamics. So what?) The few positive aspects of this farce are that it’ll give Russian air defense practice shooting down a different airplane and it will further decrease NATO weapons stocks. (For this American, it’s impossible to have enough bad things happen to NATO and the Empire of Lies.)
Russian ATGMs are tens of thousands a pop, depending on model. Javelins are close to hundred thousand. Tanks cost millions a piece.
Shorter range AA missiles are about hundred thousand a pop, and longer range ones are more. Patriots are milions a pop. Modern jets are tens of millions a piece (except the stealth ones, that are significantly more).
Cruise missiles tend to be over million a pop. Price of hypersonics is unknown, ’cause no one is selling them. They are still few in numbers and not ready for real use.
What are the actual production costs for Russians, no one knows except them. Based on the videos of Russian soldiers firing multiple ATGMs one after another, I don’t think they care much about the cost.
It’s hara kiri! Just being pedantic.
Thanks.
Larry, I recall the afghan govt lasted 3 years after the Soviets left. The US afghan gov’t, not so much. Soviet bases were still in good condition for the US to use – Haliburton build facilities were falling apart while the US was there – they will not stand the sands of time –
…..
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Here’s a good article by Chris Hedges that gives some perspective:
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/01/31/ukraine-the-war-that-went-wrong/
Well thought out views there.
Here the Colonel makes reference to actual attitude of U.S military senior commanders and a neat caveat on the reality of the transfer of M1 series tanks to Ukraine. No current production Abrams will be sent to Ukraine….only new vehicles without the upgraded honeycomb composite armour will send because of likelihood of being captured
https://youtu.be/cmIKBEiaRyA
Hey Joe,bad news,the last Abrams rolled off the lin e in 1992.Currently there is less than 100 workers at the plant in Lima,Ohio.Once there were 1000.
The Lima plant is doing better than the tank plant at the Detroit Arsenal. That was closed long ago.
So we are sending overweight M-60’s with better electronics and gun.
The M60 variant ARV is in action currently…I think it’s called the Hercules M88A2. Interesting note…. Russian sources estimate by the scale of armoured recovery vehicles sent that actually NATO is sending at least 300 MBT….. needing the approximately 17 ARV in country or in transit. I suspected all along the trains and lowbed transport numbers of tracked and wheeled equipment in transit did not equal official NATO numbers
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/kremlin-offers-cash-bounties-burning-us-nato-tanks-ukraine/
Seems NATO hardware is more valuable captured than destroyed.
They need one of each for assessment, and then for museum. The most well know Tiger tank is the one that got captured first. It’s still the main attraction of British tank museum.
Could someone please explain to me the meaning of the below?
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/3280857/navy-to-temporarily-suspend-some-dry-dock-operations-in-the-pacific-northwest/
It doesn’t have anything to do with “The US not being a part of this war, does it?” For some reason, it looked to me very bizarre, but maybe I see conspiracies where there are none.
The seismic risk is real, unfortunately. New research indicates the tsunami risks are much greater than they thought for Puget Sound. The Seattle Fault Zone has been found to rake right across the shipyard. I’m glad they are waking up. You can’t have those Tridents jostled around, or the reactors in the carriers.
It used to scare the heck out of me thinking about what would happen when I lived there. The Navy hospital is supposed to be a cornerstone of the disaster response but they could be totaled if that fault goes off.
Even worse, the SFZ is appearing to be connected to the Cascadia megathrust fault. (And I think SFZ is also a thrust fault system.) This new research about the discovery of methane bubbling up from the undersea portions of the faults in the area goes into that. Both faults are overdue.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021GC010211
Methane Plume Emissions Associated With Puget Sound Faults in the Cascadia Forearc
I was there on February 28, 2001, when Seattle was hit by the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake. As our Northgate Office Building rocked back and forth, the smart people who headed outside for safety were sneered at by bald-headed Bill Gates nerd loser types who “toughed it out” inside buildings exploding bricks.
Let the fault have its day. I say the same thing about the San Adreas Fault and Yellowstone. “Just Do It.”
Only way to fix stupid.
Consider the age of these drydocks (https://news.usni.org/2023/01/27/navy-closes-4-puget-sound-submarine-dry-docks-following-earthquake-risk-study) and the lack of adequate funding for mandatory USN ship maintenance. Now consider the probability that the Navy has requested funds for a modern dry dock for 2 decades. Seismic risk histrionics may obtain funding faster than waiting for the dry dock to sink of old age.
NATO has done an order of magnitude more in defence of Ukraine than most members could reasonably expect from invoking Article 5. It is a NATO war but for the formal declaration.
What’s been exposed is that NATO doesn’t understand war and seems utterly unaware that it’s been out-manoeuvred on all fronts. It did win on the Western MSM front, where Russia pleaded nolo contendere and withdrew. Yet, NATO still doesn’t understand that Russia’s withdrawal turned it into an echo chamber.
Russia has shaped the UA battlefield(s) and the NATO-UA army to its liking. It will continue to calibrate the tempo of the war and will set the timing of the “win” to other developments. NATO is trapped in a closed feedback loop, calibrating its war plans to the headlines it itself generated. It’s become a giant PR Dept that pretends to fight wars.
Russia did not withdrew from the Western MSM front, but was banned. Echo chamber was made intentionally.
I suspect that NATO has a false flag up it´s sleeve to use to justify its failure & continued existence when it becomes obvious to all their sheeple that Ukraine is lost and they want EU citizens to believe that they will be next target. Davos revealed that false flag at their January 2023 meeting as the ´´ Extremely likely to occur´´ Cyber Polygon rehearsed event which is a Russian hack of the Western Banking system wiping out all records and resulting in the planned solution of € and $ being replaced by ECB & FED Central Bank digital currency
The trouble with the false flag concept for NATO is they have no possible follow-up response after getting kicked in the nuts in Ukraine. Sure, we may get something tailored for domestic consumption along the lines of draconian restrictions (convenient for the Davos crowd), but it would still result in problems for the economy and dollar, with any response exacerbating those issues.
Sometimes the best strategy is to walk away, but they can’t seem to figure that one out. As to any false flag, they should remember that when you’re going to shoot yourself in the foot, make sure the gun isn’t pointed at your head when you pull the trigger.
A bit off topic. Saw today that Polish instructors believe they can train the Ukrainians to operate Leopard 2 tanks in five weeks. Five weeks. Good luck with that one……. As someone who retrained as a vehicle commander from the Centurion Aust Mk 5 to Leopard in the 1970s. Five to six weeks for drivers (driving a totally different vehicle and servicing it) , may be six to eight weeks for the gunners, different gunnery techniques (Leopard had a laser range finder vs the Cent’s .50 cal ranging gun), servicing and maintaining the gun (OK pretty much the same as on the Cent – was more or less the same gun just a different bore size). What was different was the new electronics (major difference) that the Leopard had, and the major upgrade in mechanics. One officer at the time described it as going from driving a steam engine to driving a bullet train (it was). As for the vehicle commanders (crew commanders in Aust parlance) – can’t remember the length of the course but weeks (10 rings a bell) – the commander had to learn the ins and outs of driving and servicing, gunnery (all facets), command and control of the vehicle, and then we had to put it all together. We had to get to know the new vehicle (without killing someone), mold the crew into a single working entity. The later was the hard part – although we were used to working together, Leopard was whole new game. So five weeks? They’re dreaming or on something.
No one has mentioned that all these woop de woo fire control systems will also be in a different language.
“Saw today that Polish instructors believe they can train the Ukrainians to operate Leopard 2 tanks in five weeks.”
You are being gaslighted.
Ukraine has been de facto NATO members for at least a decade now. Plenty of time for the United States and the west to have been trained thousands of Ukrainian military personnel in the use of the full NATO arsenal.
These Ukrainian tank crews are just hanging out in Poland for the “next five weeks,” drinking lattes and munching on croissants.
Now we know where all those Abrams and Bradleys, loaded onto hundreds of railroad flatbeds, were heading in all those YouTube videos.
There are reports of Abrams being sighted in Poland. Just how many Abrams were in the NATO armories in Europe?
Russian artillery and rocketeers across the board say, “Bring ’em on!” And around the globe those currently addicted to drone videos from Ukraine echo that sentiment as they stock up on popcorn.
Here is a link for the Abrams (one of the comments says 28 are leased until delivery of refurbished tanks by Poland in late 2023 or 2024).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ5FV-y4gtk
I personally expect it will be sheep dipped Polish soldiers crewing the tanks to lessen the likelihood of them being driven straight onto the black market once in Ukraine.
2 Carriers where built for the RNs naval lead in EUFOR’ joint naval forces, tasked with projecting EU power internationally, but Brexit put a temporary block on that while pro EU UK politicians tried to turn Brexit around. The most amusing thing about this debacle is they are unreliable, expensive, carry a stealth strike force that Russian AA systems can detect and as a bankrupt country the UK has very little power to project, funnily enough neither has the EU.
The missles that can now hit 150 km will test Russias resolve
The V1 that can now hit London will test British resolve.
What is the situation for the civilian population in Ukraine? If we only focus on the military side, wouldn’t the war end when the Ukrainian population can not be fed any more?
There were a lot of reports some weeks ago about Russia destroying the power grid. Now no more reports. How can you feed the people behind the front? There were reports saying that the West delivers diesel generators. How is that working?
So, the strange thing is not what we hear in the media, but what you don’t hear.
How many wars stopped not on the battlefield, but on the home front?
According to McGregor, the whole population living in Ukraine, was 37.5 million before the war, is now somewhere around twenty million.
The society is collapsing ahead of the state doing the same thing. Voting with their feet, mostly and on top of that the lowest natality rates in Europe and in their own history.
I have read that 10 million have left since 2014 when the Banderites were put into power, and obviously a lot more since the current phase of the war (feb 2022) So that sounds about right.
With so many natural resources, Ukraine should/could have been a prosperous country, but this is what happens when you get into bed with the neocons.
Very sad, and a stark warning to the Taiwanese.
A average monthly take home pay in 2019 was 90€.
Suspect anyone of working age who could leave did so after 2014.
I have been to Ukraine several times up until 2014. The population figure of around 40 million pre-war we keep hearing, I think is way too high. Nothing scientific but if you haven’t done a census in over 20 years and given the number of Ukrainians relocating to the US and other nations during that time, my guess is the pre-war population of Ukraine was a LOT less than this figure. Who knows what it will be after the war?
Re population of Uki-stan:
The “bread consumption” based estimates for 2016 were in the range of 22-25 million (down from 52 million in 1993).
The calculation is quite simple and is extremely accurate: avg. bread consumption per capita in 404 in 1994 was ~50kg/year (total bread and baked-goods production was 2.5 million tons.
In 2016 total bread and baked-goods production declined to 1.1 million tons. Typically, people, when hitting extreme poverty, reduce consumption of meat, fruit, and consumer even more bread and pasta (as those are the cheapest calories). Assuming bread consumption has not changed (likely it went up, to replace meat and fruit calories), in 2016 Uki population was about 22 million people.
Finally, since the beginning of SMO the number of refugees has been:
– 7.9 million to European countries, and
– 2.9 million to Russia
Assuming total population from 2016 to 2022 has not changed and remained at ~22 million, with 11 million refugees, the current population is about 11 million. Most them are likely retirees (those are typically the poorest and least mobile).
With 1 million (if true) of the population in the 404 military, 150k dead + 300k-400k wounded, there about 9 million (mostly older) population left for any further “mobilization”…
This is a long-term collapse. The short term comes when there is no food. At the moment, it does not look like this. At least, I don’t know this. So, how can the food distribution still be organised despite the war?
The answer is: Russians. They have been intentionally going soft right from the start, in order to avoid humanitarian catastrophy. Food distribution can still be organised because trains/trucks are still running, and most of bridges are still there (AFU destroyed more bridges that Russians did). Power grid is heavily damaged, but still left operational so that people don’t freeze or starve. In addition to that, Ukraine is still exporting grain.
do you think possible a limited nuclear interchange in the lands of Ukraine and Europe, trying to avoid Russia land and obviously the US, are the neocons prone to this option?
There is no chance of nuclear war. For the US to beat Russia this implies the US wins a nuclear exchange. The Russians have better strike capability. One Sarmat can wipe Texas off the map. Is this neocon thinking? If so they should be locked up with the criminally insane.
“There is no chance of nuclear war. ”
There is every chance of there being a nuclear war. Look at how smug the officers are in this video. It’s been over 70-years since “Atomic Annie” was first introduced, and the United States military has only gotten smugger.
https://youtu.be/XT5jo7aZzTw
Russians won’t drop nukes in their own backyard, because it’s their own backyard. If USA tries to do it, Russian response will be according to their doctrine (which means firing nukes while enemy ones are still in the air).
“Russians won’t drop nukes in their own backyard, because it’s their own backyard.”
Why not?
The United States tested a crap house load of nuclear fission in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s in Nevada. That’s considered in one’s backyard. I have visited the Nevada Test Site. Radiation is the main attraction. [Seriously]
There’s a difference between nuclear test and dropping nuke on people. Russians did bunch of nuclear tests, but don’t want to nuke people (especially those that speak Russian language).
They are testing nukes that they intend to drop on people.
Nope. They don’t intend to drop them on people, but will do it if they are forced to. It’s like owning a firearm for self defense. Most people that own guns do not intend to shoot people, but will do it if they are forced to.
“If NATO decides to mobilize ground forces and send them to Poland and Romania, Russia is not likely to sit back and wait for them to strike.”
That is why Russia has troops in Belarus. They are a **backup-force on stand-by** in case Nato does something stupid. Those troops literary make sure Nato doesn’t have any itch for adventures. Western MSM, last year, has already spread some rumors of Poland getting into west Ukraine as some sort of a peace-force and such. Nothing has materialized so far. Nato knows exactly whats up and what Russia is capable to do with Nato if they try to interfere with the Russian SMO.
As I said before, Nato looks nice on paper but is noting in reality. The alliance will fall apart the moment they are faced going openly to war with Russia. Same goes for US. That is why the US has **outsourced** their war on Russia to Ukraine and their vassals. Blowing up NS and NS2 was also to show their puppets it’s serious and there is no way back.
While in broad agreement with Mr Larry’s sentiments
His articles have a memorable formula
1 The US & NATO auxiliaries military political security apparatus are the less polite form of ‘no good’
2 An anachronistic cultural reference from a Hollywood or British movie that people born in the current century probably won’t recognise
We love you Mr Larry , but at least update your cinematic repertoire to less bias on old jokes and more diverse international cinema
We are living in the multipolar century!!
The Russians are avoiding headlines which NATO and the US can use as an excuse to mobilise. The war of attrition is in Russia’s favour and the Ukrainian rate rate is massive. I do not think they will risk a spring offensive. The US and the EU are already showing signs of division and panic in some quarters . When the dollar collapses so will the hated western empire.
I’’d argue that for most of it’s existence the British Army has never been a top-level fighting force, lions equipped by parsimonious donkeys, the poor cousin to the RN and later on the RAF. In comparison to most NATO nations, the Cold-War UK Army was top tier, but that’s not saying much. I remember talking to UK soldiers in the 80’s and in between rubbishing the SA-80 they joked about the lack of ammunition, POL and other supplies; saying they’d be like the Para’s at Arnhem; expected to fight for 72 hours before running out of most things but probably putting up a decent fight, for up to a week!
There is no chance of nuclear war. For the US to beat Russia this implies the US wins a nuclear exchange. The Russians have better strike capability. One Sarmat can wipe Texas off the map. Is this neocon thinking? If so they should be locked up with the criminally insane.
The US has no functioning defense against ICBMs. It was stated already to the congress by military leaders. For me, Ageis is only good on paper. It is already outdated and the whole idea was more a dream than functioning reality. US/Nato are open for an attack and can’t do nothing but retaliate (if they still can after a strike).
Projection of power was their last deterrence to make themselves mighty and unbeatable. That PR-bubble has popped already. Their best weapon so far has been sanctions. They work well on poor countries, depending on global trade. That is why the rest of the world is establishing a second payment/trade system. It takes time.
Eventually sport will be divided between west and the rest of the world too. The weaponization of social events by the west is just another nail in their coffin. The west will loose its influence and will descend into meaningless existence. If they won’t get blown to pieces first, of course. Looks like they are heading into that scenario more likely.
Contrast the lack of US anti-missile defence with the superior Russian system, then add that Russia has completely upgraded their bomb shelter network. Russia actually wants to save their people if it all goes bad, the US doesn’t seem to care. Mind you, if they started building a bomb shelter network, the general population just might wake up and say “hold it!”
Yes. Whatever the west lacks in reality, they just make up in propaganda. You don’t really need a shelter. Just flee to a secure country like somewhere in Asia. I have friends there and I will definitely go if things get more serious.
Best of luck to all of us.
“. . . the U.S. failed to defeat a bunch of Afghani goat herders . . .”
You meant “tarpheads.” Tarpheads. Right?
And, if, the mighty United States cannot even take on a bunch of tarpheads what does that say about US?
Can’t wait until this failed state of a government (the United States) packs up, in the middle of some Ukrainian night, breaks wind, and sneaks home once again. Always a loser. And once again declaring victory.
What’s next after Afghanistan? What’s next after the Ukraine?
This has to stop. This must end.
“A senior US general has privately told Defence [sic] Secretary Ben Wallace the British Army is no longer regarded as a top-level fighting force, defence [sic] sources have revealed. ”
It’s all been for show with the Brits for at least two World Wars and the last two-hundred years. Same thing with this monarchy of theirs. Just a bunch of inbreds dressing up, paring up with “commoners,” marrying beneath their class.
“The Empire That Will Not Die.” But the Brits sure make a pretty corpse. Nothing like a well-dressed zombie.
Well, NATO countries can produce more weaponry.
In fact, slowly but surely they are increasing their production and capabilities.
If NATO decides to send its troops to Ukraine, it will gradually accumulate those troops.
A brigade here, a brigade there… What is Russia going to do about it ?
Short of using nukes to blast airfields, bases etc, I’d say there is little it can do.
It can’t even keep Western weaponry from reaching Donbass all the way from Poland.
It can’t even slow that flow by keeping the bridges over Dniepar out of order.
The only thing it can do is keep attriting VSU hoping it runs out of men. And if that happens we all better hope NATO does not send forces into Ukraine, because in a conventional war Russia’s military has no chance.
oh boy, that’s some top shelf BS mr. Wiz
Feel free to explain why you think that
Wiz:In my younger days i was a trapper.I learned that the hardest thing to do when trapping is to lure my prey into the trap.I could have roamed around the countryside hoping shoot something but that was not productive enough.Trapping could produce 1000 pelts a year.
MM
A friend was a hunter for many years. Then the bear got him. He doesn’t hunt anymore but walks with a limp.
Feel free to infom yourself to get up to date on reality rather than stating some western BS propaganda. Please and thank you.
NATO countries can no longer afford massive increases in military expenditure without risking economic collapse. Russia, with the trade support of China, has more leeway and could therefore defeat NATO. Nobody wins, but the ordinary people of NATO countries would lose most. Better to stop the madness of escalation before it is too late. If NATO leaders are too proud to do so, then we should find new leaders who will.
When you say NATO countries, you are talking about some of the richest countries on the planet. They can afford a LOT of things.
Most have been spending 2-3 % of GDP on military. If they double the expense to 4-6 %, nothing will collapse and the cumulative production of dozens of countries will add up significantly.
Russia can’t match that even if it spent 50% of its GDP.
Russian military doesn’t buy $15,000 coffee makers like the Pentagon does
Exile
There’s plenty of corruption in Russia too, especially in the military. It has been the cause of a lot of issues during this campaign. The same goes for Ukraine. Where there’s money there’s corruption.
Despite the expensive coffee makers, the US operates some pretty impressive military gear and in great quantities too.
GDP is not the measure of industrial might. You should compare stuff like steel production. Most of NATO countries are in the proces of deindustrialization, because industry requires lots of energy. All of the German Panthers were made with Russian cheap energy, and maybe even Russian steel.
just saying
Are you driving a Russian car, typing on a Russian computer or a smartphone, using a Russian operating system and applications ? I don’t think so.
Russia can build some pretty impressive things but cannot be compared to the combined industrial might of the West and its allies.
I don’t own a car, nor smartphone. My computer is made in China (just like most things are, including cars and smartphones) with Linux on it. I don’t know what it has to do with use of GDP as a measure of industrial might.
You should not compare industrial might of the West with Russia alone, because Russia is not alone. China and Russia (and other countries in the new “Eastern Block”) combined have industrial might comparable to the West (you should compare real numbers not GDP). When do you think will be the next Moon landing, and by whom? That would be the proof of industrial might.
Well if you don’t own a car or a smartphone and use Linux (a guy from Finland came up with that one) you belong to a small minority of modern people.
I never mention GDP. That nonsense is not important to me. I look around and see which technologies are being used, and they are overwhelmingly not Russian.
Even China is heavily dependant on technologies from the EU, US, Taiwan and Japan. Ask Huawei how many phones it sold in the West since the google ban.
wiz says 1 February 2023 at 07:15
When you say NATO countries, you are talking about some of the richest countries on the planet. They can afford a LOT of things.
Most have been spending 2-3 % of GDP on military. If they double the expense to 4-6 %, nothing will collapse and the cumulative production of dozens of countries will add up significantly.
Russia can’t match that even if it spent 50% of its GDP.
wiz says 1 February 2023 at 15:48
I never mention GDP. That nonsense is not important to me. I look around and see which technologies are being used, and they are overwhelmingly not Russian.
Gotcha!
This is one of the reasons people praise comment section of this site. Even those that troll can actually learn something.
Everyone is dependant on others nowdays, but no one is irreplaceable. My bet is that next Moon landing will be by Chinese.
They are not rich. They are indebted beyond what they can afford or pay back in reality. The **money printing scam** is coming to an end. Boy, you really lack some basics here.
On a net worth basis, the west is broke, Russia isn’t. The west operates economies using printed money and debt to buy imports, mostly from China. The west is not self-sufficient, Russia is. Economic measures don’t necessarily reflect any practical reality. In addition, inflation measures (GDP deflator, CPI) have been rigged over the last few decades, always to reduce the amount of measured inflation. Using the pre 1980 CPI, inflation is actually double what they are telling us. If we used the old measure, we’d have had no growth or contraction for over 20 years, and that’s in line with what most people have experienced.
The economic measures are BS, and the inflation measure is pure BS as it conveniently excuses artificially low interest rates for the zombie economy, and it caps cost of living increases to government programs. It screw us on both ends. If Russia can’t match us, why do they keep pumping out more arms while we are running out? NATO stockpiles are being depleted and there isn’t capacity to keep up.
As to the “rich” west, when you owe more than you’re worth, you’re broke. We can’t even handle an interest rate that approaches a phony low inflation number. We have negative real interest rates. Are you rich if you can’t afford to pay real interest? I think not. Our current problem is you can’t taper a Ponzi scheme. We’re seriously broke. This is where Russia is hitting us the hardest, and most are too stupid to see it.
wiz
There has been much speculation about why Russia has not taken out those bridges, though the general consensus is they could if they wanted to.
Actually there has been recent speculation that they will do so shortly.
Re the rest of your post, I think you’ll find that like the sanctions destroying Russia failed, so too would a NATO full force engagement.
For all his many faults, Obama got one thing right:
“Russia has escalatory dominance in that area”.
Glasshopper
Big bridges, like the ones over the Dnieper are difficult to disable.
You need to be able to hit them precisely and hard and keep hitting them to offset the inevitable repair effort. They will be well protected by AD so you have to go through that as well.
It could be that Russia simply does not have the capability to pull that of. At least for now.
Sanctions rarely if ever work even on countries that do not have Russia’s resources.
The fact that the sanctions failed does not automatically mean that a military engagement will as well.
Armies of major NATO countries however are nothing to sneeze at. Ukraine was outgunned from the start and still manages to hold the Russians off nearly a year into this conflict.
No, I think Russia hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in hell winning a conventional conflict against NATO in Ukraine if NATO comes in force.
If NATO doesn’t intervene directly, Ukraine will probably eventually run out of bodies to throw into this conflict and have to negotiate.
Do hyper-sonic missiles ring a bell? No problem to destroy a bridge with that. What AD does Ukraine have? They can’t even stop subsonic missiles.
Ukraine was defeated after 8 weeks. They were already negotiating for peace. Then the west stepped in and derailed everything. Now they are bleeding out and sending tanks. They have no clue what they get themselves into. Thousands of Nato mercenaries already dead. They really need an exit here.
You think wrong. Russia is in charge on the ground and is grinding Ukies and Nato as well. Whatever the west has put up against Russia, it failed. They will have to send them nukes soon. That’s it. There is no way Russia can loose this conflict. You never elaborate your “thinking”. Just saying it won’t make it happen. Everything is pointing to a victory for Russia. This was clear form the beginning. Nato’s plan failed and throwing money and weapons into Ukraine hasn’t changed anything. Russia is in no hurry.
Wiz,
I’d like to hear your take on the Us in Afghanistan experience, in contrast to your certainty of the “West’s” success fighting against Russia in Ukraine
Russia doesn’t need nukes to get the job done. Watch the videos of the explosion in Beirut. Israel didn’t do it. They were busy bombing Syria (or Iran, or someplace) at the time. What happened in Beirut could have been a tactical nuke, covered by a conventional explosion. You know, a “clean nuke.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t77cF9sCaFk
A clean nuke eh ? That’s a cool trick.
And in Beirut of all places. smh
When everything is **that easy** as you say it, why the hell did Nato not come up with that crap on their own?
Oh wait, they did and tossed it into garbage, because it is not possible for many reasons. Nato is nothing, they can’t do anything but project pure PR-BS and give poor defenseless countries a big headache. They are already of of ammunition and are giving weapons from their own stocks. There is almost no production going on.
Yes, Nato has no chance in a conventional war with Russia. That has Ukraine shown to everyone. Trained, equipped by Nato and defeated after 4 to 8 weeks. Now Ukraine is on the ropes, bleeding Nato dry. EU couldn’t even do anything with their sanctions but hurt themself at least 10-fold what they aimed at hurting Russia.
Well, well … weak, backward, with no real economy “gas station” with the GDP of Texas. Doesn’t look like that? It does, when lunatics actually believe that western propaganda. You got duped, dude. Time to wake up.
Accumulate what troops? How many NATO man/women/others are willing to go and die on the Easter Front? Would you go and fight? How many of your friends/relatives would? If I was younger, I would be willing to fight, on the Russian side.
You would need much more than a brigade here, and a brigade there. Germans have sent millions back in the day, and it wasn’t enough. NATO can not muster a few hundred thousands.
just saying
The US has been in one conflict or the other for most of its existence. Somehow it always manages to find enough soldiers to fight and die in those wars.
Germans invaded Russia so they needed a lot of soldiers.
NATO does not need to invade Russia nor does it seek to occupy it militarily. It already has hundreds of thousands of troops fighting Russia in Ukraine.
If NATO augmented that force with its airpower and AD alone, Russia would be in a lot of problems. The US simply outclasses Russia in almost every military category, especially in troop training. Then there is the rest of NATO countries. Then there are the allies, like S. Korea and Japan.
The only thing holding NATO back are Russian nukes.
Nato and US have lost every war they waged upon some defenseless country in the last 20 years alone. They can’t even compete with so called sandal-soldiers. US was beaten like a dog and fled Afghanistan in a hurry. Nato has thrown heir hardware into Ukraine and failed to achieve anything substantial. Their weapons have proved useless so far. They are good enough to murder defenseless people in ME only. We will see how their tanks will preform against Russian hardware. I would not bet that they will do anything good for Ukraine thou.
USA lost in Vietnam because it could not find enough soldiers villing to fight and die there. It has been invading weak countries ever since that debacle.
Once NATO starts real war with Russia, it won’t matter if it wants to invade or not. Russians will mass mobilize and come towards Berlin again. Good luck stopping that with currently available troops & tanks & ammo & refugees causing chaos everywhere.
The only military category in which US simply outclasses Russians is number of genders, and related troop training. US doesn’t have allies, only vassals. Once it shows weakness they will all run away like Saudis just did. The only NATO country with significant forces is Turkey. Do you really think that they would go to war against Russia?
You need to lay off that CNN Kool-Aid, or maybe just grab a rifle and go there to put your high heels on the ground.
Russia has no interest in going after Berlin, or even Poland for that matter. If it tried it would fail.
It cannot even capture Kharkiv ffs, which is a semi Russian city a few miles from its border.
You are right. I have just watched an an interview with US special forces member fighting in Ukraine, and it opend up my eyes. It has all the buzzwords in it, so you will surely love it.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/a7T3ftJRdmmZ/
And a very big welcome to the latest FUD spreading troll, the mighty WIZ.
This isn’t the Cold War. There are not hundreds of thousands of NATO troops in Europe ready to fight. There’s maybe 100k Americans there now, most of whom aren’t combat troops. They can’t just be sent into combat because of all the logistics, communications, intelligence, etc needs. Now maybe NATO’s fooling everyone and ready to pounce. But the European armies are small and ill equipped.
Currently the west, especially Europe, is pretending it gets fuel from somewhere besides Russia. Now if there was an open NATO-Russia war do you suppose the oil would keep flowing? Maybe Russia launches missile attacks at European refineries first thing. How long do NATO armies last in the field in that scenario?
Finally, the collective west struggled to surge produce surgical masks and ventilators but you expect it can rebuild and ramp up a full military industrial complex in months?
Wiz, you don’t make points, you simply express opinions, and do so ignoring vast amounts of information at complete odds with everything you state. A good stirrer tries to hit emotions rather than debate facts and for good reason, in the end though we are all entitled to our beliefs. Let’s see where we are in a few months.
this got to be a troll , i mean no one is this stupid and foolish especially when all he regurgiate are western propaganda narrative
look at his replies and you will see him jumping from topic to topic without trying to understand or even provide counter argument.
avoid replying to this troll as this is HASBARA 101 method of posting nonsense and then getting the whole forum to try correcting his mistakes and foolishness
Sebastien Lecornu – another of Macron’s “pretty boys” who started out in PR and is now 36 and one year in the job.
France is a joke. It has had female Defence Ministers who had to resign. It is a has-been nation being eviscerated by Macron – elected largely by Ex-Pats rather like Sandhu in Moldova.
France is bereft of geopolitical allies
Sebastien Lecornu – another of Macron’s “pretty boys” who started out in PR and is now 36 and one year in the job.
France is a joke. It has had female Defence Ministers who had to resign. It is a has-been nation being eviscerated by Macron – elected largely by Ex-Pats rather like Sandhu in Moldova.
France is currently bereft of geopolitical allies – guaranteeing Greece against Turkey and meddling in Syria and Ukraine – with Germany drifting away ever since Schroeder and the move from Catholics as Chancellor to Protestants like Schroeder, Merkel, Scholz when predecessors were apart from Schmidt (who was close to Valery Giscard d’Estaing) were mainly Catholics
They’re being turfed out of Africa too Paul.
NATO’s only real hope is getting Turkey onside. But I can’t see it happening even if Erdogan loses the next election. I doubt many Turks want to go to war against Russia.
Quite the opposite. Turkiye is going to benefit mightily from Russia’s success.
I don’t really know about people having/holding the power. Think of Le Pen and Macron. Macron is at the helm. Look where his country and the people are heading. People don’t care too much if they have their own worries. Macron gave France a lot to worry about, now he can run the country whichever way he wants.
At this point Türkiye will not support any NATO suicidal adventures against Russia. In January the opinion poll in the country revealed who people consider a friend and who they view as their enemy:
– 90% view United States as an enemy
– 73% view Russia as a friend
Here is the excerpt:
In Turkey, public opinion about America and Russia is changing rapidly. On December 30-31, the Mobile Research Center conducted a survey in 24 provinces across Turkey with the participation of 2,464 people. The study examined the attitude of the people to Russia.
While the share of those who see America as an enemy is approaching 90 percent, the share of those who see Russia as a friend is 62.6 percent. Those who said that “good relations should be established with Russia” turned out to be 72.8 percent.
After the coup attempt on July 15, the share of those who see America as an enemy reached 90 percent.
Source: https://bigasia.ru/en/content/news/society/agentstvo-ulusal-ustanovilo-chto-turetskiy-narod-vidit-v-rossii-druga-a-v-amerike-vraga/
“France is currently bereft of geopolitical allies . . . .”
And then there is Germany, who has no friends, let alone allies. Their last “friend” and “ally” just blew up $20-billion dollars in critical civilian infrastructure. And who might that have been? We will never know. Anybody remember Nord Stream 1 and 2?
How must it feel to have been declared war on and no one has fessed to it yet?
The United States to Germany: “You’ll get your natural gas from us, at four (4) times the market price. And you’ll like it. Or else.”
But the UK military is an “inclusive” force so it’s all good.
There is only one question to ask; Qui bono, who benefits? Who is going to replace all these weapons given away by the various countries, the US of course, so they don’t want the war to end and want every country to deplete it’s weapons cache.
For all intents and purposes this is WW3, isn’t it? 21st century style.
A war in which one side is trying to fight without the cooperation of its population. That’s why the NATO countries are so happily parting with their gear: they have zero intention of using it themselves. Either the victory comes through the use of Ukrainian proxies plus sundry mercenaries or it doesn’t come at all.
And let me brake a lance here for the beleaguered, propagandised, individualised western populus. At least they’re proving slow to go all in for the war path.
It’s one more proof that the capitalist ideology contains the seeds of its own destruction: you spend decades alienating people from each other without realising you won’t be able to count on them to unite behind you when you need them. I suppose it’s as good a guarantee for global peace as anything else.
People know we want to win but they also know they don’t want it enough to pay for victory with their own blood. And I can’t criticise that.
I look forward to the day Russia wins this war and Europeans will have to sit down to things about things properly and start tackling problems that should’ve tackled twenty years ago.
Back in the day (Cold War 1.0) we had a joke that went, “If the Soviets attacked Turkey in the rear, would Greece help?”
Somehow that joke seems more relevant than ever.
the parallels between the Roman and American empires is amazing. Rome went out to battle the barbarians to civilise them, but it was the barbarians that ended up destroying Rome. Much like what is in store for Uncle Sam and its goal to battle the barbarians in order to make the world “safe for democracy.”
The Roman empire first conquered some Germanic areas, then tried to incorporate them, and finally was overrun by them.
So, it is like USA and Mexico. In twenty years, the USA will be overrun by Mexico and South America.
Or worse. Canadians.
“… failed to defeat a bunch of Afghani goat herders ”
That is a failure to understand the religious beliefs of a people in one simple sentence. That is not your best analyis of what happened over a two decade period.
Fred,i believe the point is Afghanis were actually fighting in sandals with AK’s and an occasional RPG.
“That is not your best analyis of what happened over a two decade period …”
That is the narrative that was presented in the West. Remember that cup of tea with the “freedom fighters”?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1571233/How-Joanne-Herring-won-Charlie-Wilsons-War.html
I took it as an analysis of the D.C. religious system not as a disparagement of someone elses. The naïve belief that War College is about war. That various Command schools/symposiums are about leadership. In general the religious awe in which Americans hold credentials which are in reality utterly hollow. Adm Stockdale warned of it and did his best to turn the tide, but the corruption was too entrenched and had acquired too many acolytes and so he was laughed, literally, off the stage. Petraeus, McCrystal, Austin, Milley, et.al. became inevitable.
The raison d’etre for NATO has be in question for years….
Never mind 404, they are done for.
I think at this point, everyone who sees the truth about this proxy war – should be thinking what THEIR PERSONAL exit strategy is. In other words – when we do lose this war (and we will, soon) and the economy starts imploding (because the west is now on the outside looking in and the whole world will start challenging us and worse yet, getting back at us by turning their back on us for decades of raping them) – the trillions and trillions of worthless paper dollars combined with more trillions in debt that are out there will become painfully obvious.
We don’t make anything anymore and as Vladimir Vladimirovich famously pointed out – you cannot eat social media and you cannot eat paper dollars. Combined with the fact that most Americans are fat, lazy and stupid but have expectations of the “high life” as if they are the “chosen people”, without understanding that it is all fueled by some slave south of the border or across the ocean in Asia – and these slaves will quickly figure out that America is not interesting anymore – we are in for the mother of all perpetual multi-year-long riots and worse. One thing not playing in America’s favor in this respect is the combination of stupid, hungry and armed at the same time.
You will then see what the “beacon of democracy” is really capable of in terms of state suppression of riots – well, at least they will try – Soviet Union will be like EU in terms of “human rights and freedoms” compared to what’s coming.
Many Americans with the means are starting to wake up to this prospect – go to many Mexican cities like Queretaro, San Miguel de Allende and quite a few others – English is almost more frequently spoken than Spanish and there are more arriving daily, to the point where the local Mexicans are getting squeezed out of the real estate markets.
I think anyone on here who can – should be looking for a personal off-ramp as far away from the “collective west” as possible. Kyrgystan is suddenly starting to look great…
Fueled by debt, if I may suggest.
The elitists have desired to stamp out the idea of liberty and have long planned the demolition of America. The good news is that they’ve failed to take down Russia too, and I would happily see the flame of liberty transferred to her rather than see it snuffed out for a century.
The bad news is that if the elitists retain control of the West, very few places on the planet will be beyond their reach. They’re playing a losing hand right now but they still have most of the chips. You will eat ze bugs and be happy. If you’re going to emigrate, Russia is the best bet.
Or you can recognize that some ideas are worth making sacrifices for.
Agree completely, Oddo,
In countries like Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and even Russia the cost of living is 5-6 times lower than in the US or Europe at this point. Any American, getting paid $1,000 in social security (however many years or months it will still be solvent) can live a “Middle Class” lifestyle in Russia and an “Upper Middle Class” lifestyle in Kyrgyzstan or Uzbekistan.
And compared to Mexico, which seems to be losing control over the drug lords, these countries are actually safer than the United States at this point.
Something tells me there will be an exodus from this country in 2-3 years time when the fecal matter truly hits the fan and the dollar collapse will start accelerating into a hyperinflation. It is baked in the cake, just a matter of when. Musical chairs and all.
THIS! Unless you just enjoy mental masturbation, you should be watching this debacle in Ukraine and making plans. The USA is turning into a Silicon Valley monitored mommy police state. When we lose all our foreign adventures they turn their gunsights on their true enemies. The citizens . I have a dog I love more than any of numerous wives or friends I ever had. I am selling off my gun collection slowly and building cash. While burning my ammo supplies. At 62 going to the gym a lot because health is a weapon. And planning on being a digital nomad the fuck out of here. I get VA disability and a separate pension check. I’m reinvesting my dividends to grow that yearly amount. Not taking social security yet to up the ante. And constantly studying the best escape countries. When I lose Stella my Malinois I’ll throw a limited armory and some few personnel effects in a secure storage facility and hit the road. I will drink vodka in Odessa and piss on a Nazi flag.
Hi Larry, given the catastrophic losses sustained by the AFU and the desperation fuelled by the bitter animus the U.K., the Baltics and Poland have towards Russia, is there any substance to the rumours of a extra-NATO coalition of the willing, without U.S. boots on the ground, intervening in the conflict in a delusional attempt to prevent Russia from defeating Ukraine (btw.the AFU is already defeated)?
I’m not sure what such an intervention would consist of. Any ideas?
NATO in a walking corps. Braindead as Macron slipped once. Even Finland is now like “we might not enter without our Swedish boyfriend” , read : we might not enter at all.
Funny what a few month of conflict can do to some convictions.
The Russian surely get the memo and teasing as they are now , they might wanna to prolong that experiment. You can’t graft new organs on a dead body , ok ,but how much hot air can you blow in ? Did if float ? Did it sound like a fart when you deflate it via the bottom ?
So much funny experiments left to do ; it’s for de science Komrad !! 🙂 :p
Well This morning, the former Defense Minister for the UK is calling now for NATO Boots on the ground.
They need American blood, they have the body bags, send your young American, men and women to die for the UkoNazi Coke Head.
The MIC Salesmen old CNN Generals will be beating the War Drums on CNN daily. We must defend the Banderites in Kiev, and stop Putin.
Give us bodies for the Meat Grinder
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-uk-defense-minister-says-nato-may-need-send-ground-forces-ukraine
bene, perchè non mettere gli stivali all’ex ministro della Difesa GB e saricarlo in Ukr ” a difendere di persona i valori della NATO ? un volontario in più farò comodo a Zelè le cocò…
A couple of notes:
1) Hungary has reportedly fired hundreds, even a thousand plus general officers. The reports I read said these were all pro-NATO.
2) Ania posted a video where she talked about an “unprecedented wave of resignations from the Polish army”. Unfortunately, she did not also provide context on how large this wave is vs. past annual departures, nor did she analyze whether this is related to the supposed Polish mobilization going on.
Individually, not very interesting but put together – food for thought.
Well, we Hungarians don’t have that many generals to fire ! 🙂 Even more so, since I know a few of them, you could say that I have friends among them ! As usual, the truth is that certain overage officers are sent to retirement ! By the way, the staff of the Hungarian Armed Forces in 2022 was about 31,000 people, of which 158 people had the rank of general !
Be careful, because here in Hungary, the left-liberal press lies just like over there in the USA, even more so because they have the same owners ! 🙂
General officer does not mean general – it means officers of colonel rank or above.
I sincerely doubt Hungary even has 1000 generals – that would make the US military look positively Spartan.
However, the colonels and lower rank generals are the hands-on parts of large unit command. These days, it also generally means the few people who actually have any inkling of real world combat. Colonel Douglas MacGregor, for example, was literally in command of the US forces in the last American armor engagement.
A mass churn is typically not a good idea unless there is a reason.
Same old “Russia is cannibalizing dishwasher/refrigerator parts” rhetoric BS, from a donkey party apparatchik Boy, in the roleplay of U.S. Department of Commerce, Don Graves.
https://warontherocks.com/2023/02/americas-hidden-tool-is-hobbling-russias-war-machine-with-multilateral-impact/
One would hope that the otherwise lackadaisical US population might gets its dander up should the evil clowns in DC propose to send in troops.
But I suspect this is all moot since the war is likely over by late spring.
I’m praying for a massive defeat with the surrendering of most Ukrainian units once Russia launches its major offensive. I’m also hoping this defeat causes the destruction of NATO and the complete humiliation of the necons and their minions.
I am deeply ashamed of what America has become. There are a lot of good people here that have been led astray by a corrupt and evil media and government. They have turned this country into a ridiculous shitshow.
I’d point fingers more specifically but that would probably get me banned.
Milites: On the British army. In WWI, the IQ of the average English private was considered to be that of a twelve year old. Officers would lead them to rail stations so they wouldn’t get lost, and the ruling class liked it this way. It was always felt English troops the least effective, and Scots and Irish the best. Of course, in a real war, that changes. The army raised in WWI. “The Old Contemptibles” was a collection of patriotic, determined English…wiped out by the thousands at Ypres and places like that. Still, in WWII, the Germans rated the English as the best soldiers, behind the Russians and Americans.
Top Gum: ICBMS. There is an element of U.S. thought as to how effective these missiles are, since they’ve been in silos for decades, untested. The subs are probably first-rate, though, and that would do the job.
On NATO: I was stationed in Germany in the 70’s, and NATO forces were fairly effective. Germany had 250,00 soldiers, 500,000 reservists. Now, they have no reservists. None. How can you fight a war without a reserve component? We have the NG and AR, and I wonder how good they are, since they were bled for the last twenty years. The “Total Army” concept was devised to get the Guard and reserves in foreign adventures, because Reagan knew he couldn’t raise the regular army that much. Making the reserves stronger and better was a good idea, but all of it was used for Iraq and Afghanistan. Just killed and maimed Guardsmen.
I know the Guard had a lot of artillery designed for back-up in Europe and Korea, then they were disbanded and converted to MP units…for “peacekeeping” in the Middle East, and MPs are easier to deploy than Arty or Armor.
We do have troops in Germany, about 68,000. When I was there we had 190,000, and almost all there now are support troops. The big, leg and armored divisions and brigades are gone, but Germany exists as a supply/refueling depot for the Middle East adventures. A lot of the barracks and depots I knew have long been given back to Germany. Of course, with the weakened German military, our support and MP units would be enough to keep any German resistance down, but the Germans seem a castrated people. They’re willing to be told what to do by daddy.
Russia could lose only if this drags on and NATO gets a miracle of resolve and dumps everything, even feeding their people, for the sake of a ‘forlorn hope’ against Russia. Russia has a sound strategy of gradual wearing down of the west, but it gives the system time to react. I think how, in WWII, Britain had time to rebuild and get America into the war.
Then, finally, America might just go all the way and use massive Air Power to waste
anything in its way. Napalm Kharkov? Sure. Americans would support this. Think how the public loved that latest Top Gun movie. Bombing was very popular during Vietnam…for most of the public.
I always think that the American empire will end when we send 40 planes on a devastating bombing run…and only 2 return.
A final, weird historical thought: Turkey has NATO’s strongest military. What if they see a weakened Europe and Erdogan pulls a Turkish invasion like the Ottomans in 1683. Who or what could stop them? A false flag of Turks being “oppressed” by Germans, and Erdogan decides the “neonazis” need to be taught a lesson. Not to really force Islam on Europe…it’s already halfway there, but just to let the latte/criossant crowd know what’s what in the new normal, that regional power has moved from Rome and Brussels back to Istanbul (Constantinople). Turkey as a semi-major power again, a big brother in the Russia/China/Iran set-up.
Europe is making itself into a vacuum, and if America won’t clench on to it, someone else will. King of the Hill is the universal game.
I say bs to the average IQ of the British army being that low.
I don’t think that Russia would allow turkey to do this. Russia respects turkey, but only within its realm.
ICBMs are an important deterrence and they are not just sitting in silos for 40 years. They are upgraded over time, used for test-flights every now and then and of course maintained functional and in top technical condition.
Russia does even upgrade their conventional equipment like ships, tanks and airplanes for example. You don’t replace or throw away something because it’s old and still useful. In know, this is different in the west. That is why they have crappy hardware in my opinion.
Just for the starting picture.
https://t.me/brekotins/9120
Allegedly a Russian soldier feigned death, waited for Ukro-drone to fly close to shoot gore pictures, then grabbed it with his hands.
Now it became clearer why all the fuss about tanks happened. Delivering GLSDB ammunition with a range of 150 kilometers is much bigger escalation than a few tanks, and they want to slide it under the radar.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/31606
To put a small nuance on the many good comments already posted, in our Democratic Republic that has turned into anything but a “People’s Paradise,” if America held a vote, for or against global nuclear war, and if Americans would defeat this by a resounding majority; and if a Republic finds the voters electing those whom they believe would serve public interests, why does the American voter allow rabid nuclear war Neocons an influential voice in our politics, and worse, authoritative positions in our national government?
Looks like high time for soul-searching.
The only rational explanation for the conduct of NATO is that it is intentional disarmament. It is a covert suicide led by persons who have dubious loyalties and may perhaps be foreign agents acting surreptitiously to accomplish this end. For decades now, Europe has assumed the the US military was their backstop in any armed warfare and would protect them despite their own limitations as supporting co-combatants. But the US military is fast becoming a paper tiger is all but nuclear war. Our recruits are now quite fat and slovenly, and spend more time in pronoun training than at the rifle range. How far we have fallen.
Lesson of the 20. century
self-destruction of evil
hoplessly surrounded
finally
Ukraine
proxy in
Stalingrad-state
the annihilation of the roots
of the evil
as long as we haven’t it
experienced
we don’t know it
the uprooting
has it become conscious
content
one hasn’t to be part of it
it’s fascination and
cool sign
cool power
Aquarius
Uranus’
heavenly inspiration
and the
the joy of heart
are one
of twelve
Lesson of the 20. century
self-destruction of evil
hoplessly surrounded
finally
Ukraine
proxy in
Stalingrad-state
the annihilation of the roots
of the evil
as long as we haven’t it
experienced
we don’t know it
the uprooting
has it become conscious
content
one hasn’t to be part of it
it’s fascination and
intensity
Experience the 5. week consciously, particularly the coming weekend
cool sign
cool power
Aquarius
Uranus’
heavenly inspiration
and the
the joy of heart
are one
of twelve
Lesson of the 20. century
self-destruction of evil
hoplessly surrounded
finally
Ukraine
proxy in
Stalingrad-state
the annihilation of the roots
of the evil
as long as we haven’t it
experienced
we don’t know it
the uprooting
has it become conscious
content
one hasn’t to be part of it
it’s fascination and
intensity
https://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2023/02/mankind-in-motherly-contraction.html
After nearly a year of this I have a ridiculous theory.
the US and Russia are acting on a pre planned scenario where Europe is ground to poverty and they are actively engaged in it together.
Washington was just stupid enough to buy into it and give all the weapons away just like dumb EU. Some idiot thought it would be a good idea to get rid of all the US weapons to replace them with the new wonders.
But they all knew the financial problems of the west would never allow it. So they did it anyway.
Damn these guys are smart. Vaccinate your military to make them a shell of their former selves. Make sure they can’t fight anywhere again. Poison their families in military housing. Kill several million of your citizens with medical tyranny again.
They couldn’t try any harder to lose everything could they?
I think when talking about Britain posters need to remember the size of these islands and the size of the Empire they carved out for themselves. Historically there have always been tensions, especially in the military sphere, that have been generated by this discrepancy that still remain today, albeit the power wielded by the UK now is largely replaced by ghosts driving unrealistic expectations.
S’agissant des canons Caesar français et de HIMARS étatsuniens, les Russes disposent désormais d’une arme qui va faire PLEURER dans les chaumières : le “système 1B75 Pénicilline” :
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Freseauinternational.net%2Fles-russes-ont-ils-les-moyens-de-detecter-et-de-neutraliser-les-chars-de-lotan-livres-en-ukraine%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3oRK1QFVXygfE4mvxIFD5e7nG6_8F7dGGgmk41qLDpNPsZmsHk5My2XCc&h=AT0otqw5R41SIKUIfibJU4qB9yHeXUNupGlRoIfL35C6RHBYESvdcUT8j76dAMSOji4ZHe9gyPxOLAfLPFGm0ZPSshnADSWPIIBD3ERSRFYKdWet30IOm2IY4LocyJ43THrR&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c%5B0%5D=AT3tksKi1BEiJ-t8EXW5Dnhsa5teZBZ6000gnqa_3TP6MHyS0sQrtx24EgEcXrjWpkFhAQ01pHvmdNAKw8MO3zyxBOwxqGwu3sBZpNu7dvunRSsNV0atcryyn-BXQIHlHmujTIeZml59_SYDyL-zwuWKcbP61hBRovzvABQhKqg2cflc3yDP
https://reseauinternational.net/et-larriere-ne-tint-plus/
“NATO is a walking corpse. Braindead as Macron slipped once”
Imho it has regained its brain but in the meantime Putin has cut off its arms and legs. In short it’s now akin to the WWI soldier depicted in “Johnny Got His Gun” : a limbless torso laying on a hospital bed.
Except that instead of saying “kill me” in Morse it says “Russia I’m gonna kick your ass” over and over again.
I’m confident Gerasimov will put a pillow to its head this year and end its misery but don’t tell Jens!
C’mon , now I have Metallica in the hears !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6vqeL-ysI
Anyway ; Johnny was a good man (as Bob Marley sang) , NATO never was so good.
I’ll stick with my kind of Frankenstein’s creature with stitched members, some kind of crazy doctor at it’s bedside and a truckload of existential problems.
““France is currently bereft of geopolitical allies”
Well I can tell you Macron doesn’t look for allies, just a butt to lick. Joe’s (or Larry Fink’s) will do.
Btw Licking male butts is in Macron’s inner nature (wink wink as Andrey writes).
All these western military analysts and retired 4 stars etc are going to look really incompetent when this war is over and Russia has achieved all its goals,if they have any pride or principles they will disappear forever
They didn’t dissapear after Afghanistan.
As I read Western mass media descriptions of the Russian military, one of thee enduring themes is its total incompetency and corruption. This meme runs from the most clueless reporter to supposedly expert pundits. This theme also exists about Russian peoples and culture. Is it any wonder people in Europe and US believe in the idea of Wunderwaffe . Yah, one weapon will just defeat the entire Russian military. When Russia totally defeats the Ukrainian/NATO army, there will be a run on Valium and Prozac to deal with the mass psychosis of the West.
Those themes have been running for centuries, just like attempts to conquer Russia. There must be some kind of connection.
Here’s an article from Breitbart I picked up on Moon of Alabama. “Lt. Col. David Davies Warns of no place in Ukraine, this is not a video game”. I was surprised with his article, it just one of the best I have seen. I would put him on the same league as Col. Doug Macgregor, Scott Ritter and yourself (all ex military persons). Also I have never heard of him before. A must read on the USA stupidity in Ukraine.
Like to thank you Larry on your awesome work and would like to hear your opinion on this lad if possible
> “This leaves NATO with few good options”
.. peaceful, respectful co-existence doesn’t seem to be one of them.
The “Ministry of Peace” needs to be dismantled.
Larry & friends
One of the things about the Ukrainian war I have found interesting, is how much infantry is needed; drones can’t hold ground! Military people said 300k soldiers were needed to pacify Ukraine, & now the Russians have 500k under arms!
So I’m dubious about the effectiveness of the ‘big’ US numbers. I saw a short line, can’t remember where; ‘Most of the veteran NCOs in the American army quit over the vaccine mandates’. If true, the US army is an empty shell. The US, Brit, Cdn armies subscribe to the bogus theory of ‘an officer & a gentleman’. That means there will always be a high percentage of doofus officers. Anglo armies absolutely depend on long serving NCOs; 20+ yrs of service. Comments I’ve seen on this list, tell me the navy & air force have got recruiting problems too. In the Cdn army, newly minted 2d Lts, are known as ‘space cadets’.
Not just the jab mandate. During the Obama admin, I don’t remember which term,
they RIF’d the U.S. Army, just the Army, by 40k. That was, if I remember correctly, the largest since the mid-70’s. This RIF was different than previous ones, which were usually executed by simple reduction of recruitment quotas, officer and enlisted, and let ordinary attrition take its course. This one was targeted at E-5, E-6, E-7 paygrades and accomplished within 2 years. Every study, poll, whatever since the dawn of study of the subject had rated the mid-grade NCO in every branch as the hard nut center of loyalty and competence in the U.S. military. I thought then if someone had a pressing need to fundamentally transform the U.S. Army this is the way they’ld do it.
Pepe Escobar offers some more insight, the latest US/NATO moves and exercise in absurdity:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-panicked-empire-tries-make-russia-offer-it-cant-refuse
It all betrays a completely reactionary role as NATO was caught flat-footed and has no clue how the deal with this situation. The Deep State is looking a lot like chicken little here, but the sky really is falling on them.
One KBP Instrument Design Bureau-manufactured Kornet missile runs roughly $26,000 compared to a Raytheon-Lockheed Martin-manufactured Javelin missile that runs $197,000 per unit.
Watch the Chechens start to get paid bonuses and what an irony if they should happen to use a Javelin (luxury weapon) to destroy a German Leopard II tank (not designed for urban combat) or a US-manufactured Abrams tank. The Chechens and the Russians were picking up caches of Javelin missiles.
Rewards are now being offered of up $71,000 for anyone who destroys or captures an Abrams or a Leopard II tank.
Place your bets…wager Russian munitions combined with bonus payments destroy German tanks:
https://abeldanger.blogspot.com/2023/02/place-your-betswager-russian-munitions.html#more
Yes, the lucrative chaos of war…
Hello Larry, another excellent article.
I think the situation it his very similar like this, and the clip that of present us, from “A fish called Wanda”.
Monty Pyton rocks!
Greetings from Portugal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s35rVw1zskA
According to the military summary channel backmut is know under operational encirclement. anything in in or out is under the risk of artillery fire.
https://youtu.be/LkeZKg_dJE4?t=872
The internal quisling Long March destroyers want all of the West militarily depleted and populations disarmed so that the external conquerors will have a cakewalk?
Larry you have made the point in many different ways that talk is cheap and what is done on the battlefield in military terms is what matters. So we can ignore the bellicose mouth runners and the fake degree RAND types and get back to reality – the US government is so busy stealing money from its citizens by crony capitalism of the MIC it doesn’t realize it’s falling way behind China, Russia and India in terms of industrial production and STEM graduates. That’s the bottom line that shows a very bad trend for the USA – stealing the wealth of its citizens, failing to keep up with industrial capability and failing to produce the future citizens of the country who will determine its success or failure. That’s a huge troika of problems.
I want to share an article I found on the UK Column website (ukcolumn.org) written by Col. Jacques Baud who gives a great insight into the history of Ukraine and specifically into that of Crimea. I was unaware that Crimea was granted autonomy towards the end of the USSR, just like Ukraine was. And that Ukraine then annexed Crimea under protest (by Crimeans) in 1995. So to speak of Crimea as a legitimate part of Ukraine that has been “stolen” from them by Russia is disingenuous.
In addition to the print article, there is a link to an audio interview, in English, with the Col. I found both items interesting an compelling. Here is the link:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/ukraine-the-search-for-peace
Thank you for pointing out this article- very informative.
A lot of money being wasted in Ukraine and other places around the world by the US government and their underdog-allies. We add the fact of a desdollarization in global level.
Let’s prepare ourselves, since a US bankruptcy is visible on the horizon and will take the world economy, as well as the life standards to a new and scary situation.
When the Berlin wall came down, US Army Europe (USAREUR) had 200,000 troops and 70000 civilians: 4 Heavy Divisions, 2 ACRs, 2 Corps with Support and 1 Theater Support. An additional 6 heavy division (mech or armor) worth of equipment were stored in warehouses in Belgium and Holland (POMCUS). Total US commitment to NATO was 10 Divisions in 10 days after the Russians invaded and NATO promised first use nuclear weapons on the battlefield if necessary. (I spent 20 yrs in HQ USAREUR aka NATO Central Army Group working G3/G8). It took us 6 months to move equipment into Saudi Arabia in preparation for Iraq Dessert Storm. We now have approx 65000 troops in Nato countries with “no support” or 35000 combat troops with support. Our NATO allies (puppets?) have nothing. We can fight the Russians one of two ways: this minuscule “Ukraine as proxy war” that will end of with a broken Ukraine, and a demil’d NATO or a nuclear exchange. We cannot possibly move adequate troops and materials to eastern Europe in anything under 2 years under the best of circumstances. (that is a positive assessment; might be more like 3-4 years.). Omar Bradley: “Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.” Our logistics circumstances suck! Using Klausiwitz metrics, we would need 3 million ground forces to invade European Russia. We used to keep ammunition stockpiled in Germany for several months of war; no one thought it would last more that 2. We still keep almost half our ammo in South Korea for the same reason. We have neither the capacity nor the knowledge to fight a “high intensity – long duration” war! I deployed to V Corps HQ during the first invasion of eastern Europe (joint endeavor) at an old Russian airbase near Kaposvar, Hungary; couldn’t understand then why NATO was involved in a Jugoslavian civil war. Now, 20 years later the NATO pattern of aggression is clear.